Is Lying Wrong or Not?

[ronniv93]

I thought that lying was wrong... period. Our God is not a liar, in His nature, so why should or would it be okay for people to lie?


God IS truth, thus to lie is to be opposite of what God is.


But I found out that Islam Ok's lying in certain circumstances and, because of the way Islam is, it could be reasoned that lying extends BEYOND these "certain circumstances."


So, my questions are:


1) How do you justify lying in your own mind, since your religion allows for it?


and


2) How can someone such as myself, a non-Muslim, really trust what Muslims say when it is permitted for them to lie to me? How can I ever be sure that the so-called "Muslim scholars" are being truthful, when they are allowed by Islam to lie?


<i>Just one example: Living Islam</i>