Is it ever OK to lie in order to promote the truth?  Even in Christian circles?

In my previous post I talked about an evangelical Christian who  flat-out lied about things I’ve said and written.  It’s also possible, of course, that he simply repeated a complete falsehood he had heard about my views without bothering to take a minute to check.  That too would be bad, but different.  But to give him the benefit of the doubt, so to say, I’ll assume that as an influential speaker on scholarly matters and a representative of conservative evangelical Christianity he usually does his homework.

Whether he himself was lying or not, the phenomenon of lying to convey the truth is interesting and worth thinking about.

I’ve thought and read a lot about it over the past 10-15 years, especially

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