Judgement Unto Truth

Miguel Tinoco

Professor: Isaiah the son of Amoz

Divinity 777

Zion and Jerusalem, June 11th 2016

I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.

(Old Testament | Jeremiah 17:10)

Unedited and Unrefined

            Please pardon my redundancy, but this paper is just a rough draft brainstorming a college essay with intent to rewrite another in class college essay about another essay written by renown author, Judith Viorst, whose essay is tilted as: “The Truth About Lying.”  It is an essay recorded in a college composition textbook titled 75 Readings starting in page 168.  My title in response and my commentary about what I read in Judith’s essay is: “There is No Truth in Lying,” and it truthfully goes mostly unedited and unrefined, but justified as an essay in its own right, it goes as follows:

There is No Truth in Lying

            I was actually looking forwards with excitement to write about in response to Judith Voirt’s essay titled, “The Truth About Lying" but only until I had fully read it. Had this not been an in class required reading for an essay, I would have dismissed it altogether without any further arguments. It is because Judith, with her exceptional writing talent did a disservice to us all by writing light mindlessly about a subject that requires, not moral authority, which we all lack, but at least some moral courage and some moral intellect. She should have listened to her inner voice or instinct not to touch the subject when she felt challenged and intrigued by it.  She did not give heed to the inner promptings of the light of Christ telling her, do not do it or else.  Yet, by so doing it, she fell squarely in the paws of her inspiring spirit, even the devil.  And now, I am here to write passionately and authoritatively against her point of view, and against those who entertain the same lying philosophy.  

            I’d rather do it as an accuser, judge and executioner to make her dread of being challenged, by the subject she chose to write about, a vivid reality.  By her light mindlessness, she may have unintentionally asked for a response from a higher order as an unintended consequence of her lying.  And I am here to deliver that response, not as an angel of light, but merely as a messenger of light and of divine truth.  Believe it or not, this whole essay is a response from the living God to her in accordance to her ways, and also in accordance to the fruit of her doings. If it were not so, I would not be here lecturing wholeheartedly in the school of the prophets about it. I don’t do this with every essay I read, but only about those I come into contact that have spiritual connotations. These are lively papers that convey a dark message from dark and unclean spiritual sources.

            Despite the circumstances, there is no justification whatsoever for any type of lying knowingly, much less with intention to deceive. And she was right in one thing though, some of us will not look upon sin or lying for that matter with the least degree of allowance. Some of us will not tolerate either her cowardly implied conclusion. She also acknowledged the word courage, which I will explain late to denote what kind of courage she may have referred to because she did not define it.  However, know this; -that not everything coming out of a person’s mouth is a lie even though it lacks truth or credibility. But if it sounds and feels like a lie, or something that we should not engage in doing, it is much better to avoid it altogether. It only becomes a grievous sin when it is uttered and it is intended to deceive, to hurt or to take advantage over others. But in all truth, lies hurt more the person or people that utter lies by putting an imperial pile or a multitude of liens on their soul’s credibility.

            This is not a justification but only my belief that when people lie, it mostly because of ignorance and light mindedness of the consequences; or, it is because there is no truth in them.  If the first stance is operant, light mindlessness and ignorance, they can always repent and amend; but if not, it is because they are as ungraceful and as truth-less and devilish as Judith Voirt and the fruit of her doings.  She, like a devil, who is a murderer and a liar from the beginning, tempted us with her remarks to agree with her double morality or rather her immorality with intent to relieve her guilt for her recurrent pathological lying.  

              As an analogy, paraphrasing Shakespeare’s King Lear play act III scene six we read that foolish is the person that trusts in the tameness of a wolf; or in a horse’s health or in the oath of loyalty of a lying whore. Like the Pharisees and ancient scribes tried to cross Jesus Christ with catchy words or questions so the devil can have a charge against him to destroy all righteousness, likewise does Judith with us intentionally or not. Oh, generation of vipers, lying carcasses and snaring hyenas, how long do you suppose that the Lord will suffer you without vengeance?  In her essay, Judith Voirt acts like the devil’s advocate or as wolf in sheep’s clothing just like the ancient scribes and publicans by trying to seduce us to pass judgement on her and all her lying friends but not without recriminating and destroying ourselves in the process.  Little did she know that the Lord overlooks all things; that we are all going to be judged by the things that are written: -yea, by the things that we do; and by the things that we say; and even by the things that we think and wish, or the very deep or shallow desires that we shew or conceal.  It is God the only one that searches our reins and knows the thoughts of our minds and the intentions of our hearts. And he shews it to his servants the prophets.  Of this assertion it is written:

    I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.

    (Old Testament | Jeremiah 17:10)

By the inspiration of the almighty which has not altogether withdrawn from me, I have detected Judith Voirt’s true and cruel intentions also. All she wanted from us with her so called “moral puzzles” was to make of us all, her unsuspecting audience, consenting accessories to her pathological lying nature.  I’ve also heard and read from trustful sources not noted or referenced here that the devil is more devilish when respectable. Without doubt, if her essays have reached our college textbooks, she is indeed a respectable author. That is not in question here. However, the macabre lying spirit of the devil is smeared like skid marks in her “The Truth About Lying essay context.  As a “respected” writer or author, there is more than meets the eye if we look a little deep in the dark mist of her soul. She has not one ounce of credibility in my eyes and her true colors show up vividly. That isn’t respectable at all. I say this because by writing about the subject that she chose, she was leaden with guilt, and she tried to transfer a great portion of it, if not all, to us by mingling it with other sinners’ purported confessions. And again, she called them, “moral puzzles.” Isn’t that a bitch?    All morality comes from God, as all ethics come from law, and there is no confusion or puzzling argument about that. Anything that is not moral, comes from somewhere else; and anything unethical comes from the lawless one.

Even reading her odious way of writing that essay seemed or felt like I was about to fornicate or commit adultery with her, but I didn’t, or maybe I did. I say this because I even saw her in a dream in a lofty bed of a Dolcetto Penthouse on top of a Tuscan Ridge.  And I even approached her bed, as recorded in Isaiah 47 and 57 about the witch, the sorcerer or the whore of Babylon. I even saw her total nakedness, that is idiom of her total lack of moral understanding.  Indeed, in my dreams; or even in her dreams, she appeared too homely young to be seventy. After reading her essay which she was reluctant or adamant to responsibly conclude, I even wondered about the lies she may have written embedded in her career as a “respectable author.” She may have lied to her hubby, her children, or even her audience, but did she lie to God? This is what he has to say about the lying spirit of Jezebel that was or is still in her:

    “For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me.”  

     (Old Testament | Isaiah 47:10)

    “But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.”

     (Old Testament | Isaiah 57:3)

     Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed

    (Old Testament | Isaiah 57:7)

     Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself to another than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest it.

    (Old Testament | Isaiah 57:8)

            Judith Voirt’s writing may be hilarious and entertaining to some, but it is also critical subject in my eyes and in the eyes of God. Many people will go to hell just by agreeing with her and her friends lying habits with intent to justify wickedness.   The world does not know it, but as a teacher in the arts of writing, she has introduced a poisonous spiritual element in her writing of that essay that will kill or severe people from God. Instead of condemning lies with odious contempt, she appears to promote and condone deceptions. I felt that maddening stupor causing poison when I read her essay and I was reluctant to write about it, but here am I, fornicating courageously and vigorously with her ESSAY.  As I read her pathetic analogy in her essay and her hateful and enticing questions, Judith and her acquaintances, perhaps with the exception of her one and only true, frank and earnest friend, she only aligned herself with the side of a bunch of liars; and by so doing, she also distanced herself from us, the so called “arrogant” and “incorruptible.” But the brand mark that liars put upon us, who are barely trying at all cost to avoid telling lies, are also far from the truth.  To be upright and honest is not easy task for many of us in a crooked, perverse, cynical and hypocritical generation, but we only appear arrogant to those who willingly indulge and dive into the pit of ravenous lies or falsehood. It is they that deep themselves lower than the mire; and they don’t like what they see when they look up.  I may get reproved by many, perhaps a 0 or even an F in my English Comp Class in college for my courage in molesting their carnal minds, but I know I will have an A in the school of the prophets, for I write what is pleasing in the sight of God, for so it is also written:

    BEHOLD my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street. A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth. He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.

    (Old Testament | Isaiah 42:1 - 4)

For whatever reason anyone chooses to lie, it is not worth it, don’t do it. But if they chose to lie, all they have to do if they still want to avoid the fatal poisoning effects of lying is to speedily repent like with any other sin, and in so doing make amends with God and our fellow men whom they may have lied, sinned or offended.   Because as I learned once from my own wife even before we were married, that despite her or even my weakness to reprehensibly lie, true friends hurt themselves with the truth so they do not destroy themselves with lies.  And if friends lie and combine as partners in crime to indulge in any type of lies or in concealing the truth or even lies, they were never true friends at all. If so, regardless how brutish and arrogant it sounds, to hell with any and all shallow and unconscientious friendships or associations. It is better to enter into the kingdom of heaven arrogant or with a lifted face, and incorruptibly severed or maimed, that is, without a foot and even without an eye, than our whole body composed of shallow friends, acquaintances and even family or relatives are all trust down like sardines into hell.  Jesus Christ spoke about these precise elements in one of his parables are present in her essay, yet in different context. Of this it is plainly written:

    Woe unto the world because of offences!  for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh! Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire.

    (New Testament | Matthew 18:7 - 8)

Now, with regards to being called or perceived incorruptible by Judith Voirt and her purported company, that is also far from the truth because under heaven, there is not one righteous amongst us, no, not even one.  By definition, I’ve often read and internalized that the truth is simply the knowledge of things as they are, as they were and as they are to come.  By technical implication alone, in order to know the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, we all need to know in full the present, the past and the future. By non-recriminating logic and reasoning, whether intentionally or not, just by being mortals, unless we know fairy well all the past present and future of us and around us by pinpointing all the potential variables, we are all susceptible to lie at any given point and time.  When people lie, they err by focusing in an infinite pit of contradicting variables instead of sound and equitable and soluble truth.

As an example, if I were to promise my anxious kid to pick her up at seven o’clock sharp to take her to her prom, and if peradventure I arrive five just minutes or tem minutes later for whatever reason, whether I intended to lie or not, I broke that promise and by technically alone I became a liar both in her and in my eyes.  The first thing that comes to mind upon arrival is as an admission of some sort of guilt argument is, “I am sorry honey, this and that happened.” The error was both in syntax or in the promise and also in trusting in our own arm of flesh or human nature which has no control over all variables that we may encounter in any given path.  However, the mind recognized and imperceptibly admitted an error, deviation or falsehood.   And that as many other unintended lies are not charged or recriminated upon us but only as long as we do not indulge in hypocrisy and cynic justification or accept in the least degree our lies.  In the simplest term a lie is an absence of truth.   These two factors cannot occupy the same space. And when truth is mingled with lies as with strong drink, it has ceased to be truth. It becomes potent or corrupt and adulterated poison. It is worse than a plain lie. Drink of it and confusion and delusional madness is the result.

Here is another example: We as writers are very creative and we like to convey ideas and images, some true and some fantastic. And by attempting to seduce others to think or see as we see, if we are not careful, we often indulge in fables or fantasies which are false perceptions or things untrue and we should responsibly note it or convey it so that we do not offend, mislead or intentionally misguide anyone.  This is why we should never put our whole trust in the arm of flesh, because by nature it is continually corruptible and whosoever trusts in the flesh or in his or her own strength, receives the appointed curses which are the ill effects of being adulterated with lies, confused, frustrated in purpose and therefore deluded.  And as time goes by, when somebody actually comes and present us with the truth, we prefer to give into fables or to believe a lie. The only thing that we who are trying to be upright and hones can hope to achieve is to learn as much as possible about the truth so and until our ability to make lies recedes or diminishes to less than zero. Otherwise, we will found ourselves in a never ending contradictory vicious cycle, like a snake biting its own tail as we seen in pre-Columbian idolatry or adultery art, always learning in circles, but never coming to a knowledge of the truth.

In broad conclusion, is does not matter what the cost is, we all should avoid lying even if we must bite our tongue and remind silent because the tongue is the unruliest member of our body.  Contrary to popular belief, despite what prevaricating lawyers and corrupt judges may demand from us even in a court of law, silence is not necessarily an admission of guilt.  This is why we have the fifth amendment in our constitution. It is only a temporary tool to stay away from filthy court rooms, to avoid perjury and to avoid being recriminated by our own admission for not knowing whole heatedly the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Here is the best example of some of the injustices we face. The Lord Jesus Christ, endured in silence his accusers and their venomous accusations. They did not kill him because of lies, but because of the truth when he claimed that he is the son of the Living God and the ever hoped Messiah, even the King of all Israel who came with a fullness of grace and truth to save us from the deception of sin.  Despite the cruelty he faced and endured, he suffered an exquisite and beautiful death. He is the only one who has true moral authority to judge over us all. And from him alone we can receive the moral courage and the moral intellect we need, after repenting of our sins, to advocate for truth; and even so, as repenting sinners, we must still do it not arrogantly, but with humility and lowly intent of heart before his all seeing eye.  Only the haters of truth, hit like a rolling stone or pierced at heart by it, will find the truth hard and unwelcoming. Hence this is why the liar, shows even more contentious contempt for the person to whom they have lied, than for the lie itself.   They can never square with the truth. In many cases, they prefer to keep lying than to confront the truth.  

Furthermore, I can never write enough about the truth for the devil snaring upon us continually like a roaring lion in search for the meal to come with all manner of temptations and oral or verbal traps. And with his accessories and devices like unto Judith Voirt and friends, the best strategy under heaven to void being devoured is not to swear or promise anything to anybody under haven at all.  But the is a solution for habitual liars to cease and desist from lying, and there is also strategy to avoid the problem of lying unintentionally.  The solution is called repentance and restitution with real intent not to ever do it again.  And as noted above, the strategy to avoid lying unintentionally, is not to indulge in light minded promises or concessions that act like contracts on our very soul, or even not to swear at all.  This is how St Vengeance or the corrupt lawyers and prevaricating judges of our generation snare upon us with their so called contracts that only serve special interests.

The Lord Jesus Christ who inspires me to write has the final word concerning this subject. With regards, he has said time and again both in the Sermon of the Mount as recorded in the New Testament of Bible; and likewise, it is recorded in his other testament called the Book of Mormon, when he came to visit my fathers as a resurrected being in ancient America after his ascension, for it is so commanded to be written:

            “But I say unto you, swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God's throne: Nor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King. Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black. But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.”

    (New Testament | Matthew 5:34 - 37)

             And again it is written, thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths: But verily, verily, I say unto you, swear not at all; neither by heaven, for it is God's throne; Nor by the earth, for it is his footstool; Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair black or white; But let your communication be Yea, yea; Nay, nay; for whatsoever cometh of more than these is evil.

    (Book of Mormon | 3 Nephi 12:33 - 37)

The Lord's sheriff has arrived.  Does anyone want to make my day by trying to steady the ark of God with filthy hands?  If you have no fear of falling like a tree when smitten by the vivid shaft of lightning, go ahead, make my day. Not even the President is except from the consequences of lying.  As a called, anointed and ordained messenger of truth full of the reprehension of the Lord, and one who refuses to hide his gun behind camel’s hair like the ancient Scribes, Pharisees, Sadducees and Publicans, with the law and testimony at hand, I wash my hands from Jezebel’s temptations and that “Truth about Lying Essay” madness.  And I shake the dust of my garments before the all seeing eye of the living God.  And in so doing, I give an end to my errand or burden to all men, women, the youth and all accountable children with regards to this very touchy but important subjects of lying which Judith Viorst has brought to bear light. And I do it humbly and nobly, yet boldly, even as one having authority, in the sacred name of Jesus Christ, amen.

Attentively Yours

Miguel Angel, Tinoco Rod-Tree-Jesse.