Are lies a convenient standard

 for the truth?

Lies of convenience save us out of trouble.

They help us to avoid conflicts, difficulties,

persecution. Paul calls them a fair-show in 

the flesh in Galatians 6:12.

Martyrdom has certainly lost it's heroic value

in today's Christian thinking and so have people's

characters lost their guts.

Lies of convenience are an attempt to avoid

something, a way to defend oneself from 

painful and unwanted consequences.

Yes, often the truth is extremely impractical

and complicated. It doesn't fit in every situation.

Some would say, the truth is old-fashioned.

This is a lie. He, the Truth, is the same

yesterday, today and forever.

Hebrews 13:8

Lies, even the white ones, have no future.

In long term they will always turn against us,

 if not in any other way, at least in effecting 

our character and trustworthiness as a person.

"A faithful man who can find?" 

Proverbs 20:6

The thought that a lie will become the truth, 

if you repeat it  long enough, is one of the worst

lies man has ever invented.

God desires the truth to the uttermost.

Psalm 51:6

He has not become more flexible nor

careless about the truth, that is the only 

thing that can help us to guard our freedom.

John 8:32