To tell the Truth?

In the "Andy Griffith" episode I mentioned, though, it was affecting a whole group of people.

 

Yeah. Amazing how many time a tiny Opie ends up showing Andy the error of his ways.

 

"Barney and the Choir"

 

One of my favorite shows, right up there with Dirty Jobs, Duck Dynasty and John Wayne movies.

As far as the "Am I too fat" question, yes I would tell the truth, and I have on medical calls where I have obese patients that are so fat their skin folds are literally rotting and necrotizing.

Just as a hypothetical, imagine a nonbeliever who wanted to ask you about Christ saw that you told a clearly obese woman that she wasn't fat. If I saw someone do that, I would immediately question what else they're willing to lie a little bit about, and in my mind it would reduce the validity of whatever else they believe. If I saw someone tell the truth, and say she needed to lose weight, then I might think they are blunt, but I will think they are an honest, blunt person which is what we should be aiming for. John the Baptist and Jesus were both blunt, honest and kind and those three qualities are not mutually exclusive.

This is the same reasoning why I agree 100% with how Matt Walsh addressed Dylan Mulvaney, who is pretending to be a woman. The truth is not mean, the truth is the truth. If the truth offends, if reality offends, then it's not the truth that's the problem.

 

Revelation 21:8, ". . . and all liars, shall . . . ."

Hebrews 11: 31, ". . . By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace. . . ."

James 2:25, ". . . Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way? . . ."

Joshua 2:4, ". . . And the woman took the two men, and hid them, and said thus, There came men unto me, but I wist not whence they were: . . ."

Hebrews 10:17, ". . . And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. . . .,"

And the religious and lost cannot understand, but we who know God through His Son do.

 

If we’re going to talk about looks, then why not question women coloring their hair, or wearing wigs, makeup, girdles? How about using hair gel, hair straightener? Or curling hair, getting perms, using hair extensions? Or wearing fake nails, false eyelashes? What about plucking eyebrows, or penciling in what isn’t there? Etc. Are all of those honest measures?

 

If we’re going to talk about something making one look fat, then, if someone is fat, the answer could always be no with no clarification.

 

Did the men to whom Rahab the harlot say these words, have a reasonable 'expectation' that she would tell them the truth?

Women used to eventually get to where they had gray hair.

That's all I know about all that.

 

My thought on that facetious example might be to us the Socratic method: "Do you think you're too fat?" (or, since I'm a big guy, "Do you think I'm too fat?" )

 

Don’t ask, unless you really do want my truthful opinion.

 

I guess one could say, “No, it doesn’t make you look fat. You ARE fat!”

But that might body-shame them, or give them some kind of complex.

Just don’t “hear” the question and get out of there.