Yes, really — there are lies in the Bible. There’s no use in denying it. In fact, those lies are there for a good reason.
The Bible is a collection of divinely inspired books. God, who cannot lie (Titus 1:2), guided men to write down His revealed truth (cf. John 16:13-14; 2 Peter 1:20-21). However, what those inspired men wrote includes history. That history often records statements made by people who were not speaking at God’s direction. Some of those statements were well-intentioned, some were not. And some were just plain old…