2 Tim. 3:16
All scripture is inspired of God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. It corrects us when we are wrong and teaches us to do what is right.
So the scriptures are not lies.
So what was Jesus referring to when he mentioned lying scribes, and also condemned the Pharisees if not what they were writing in scripture.
Well we know they added a lot of tradition and extra rules to the people. Let’s look at some of the lying habits they had:
Matthew 23: 16-22
16 “Woe to you, blind guides! You say, ‘If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing; but anyone who swears by the gold of the temple is bound by that oath.’ 17 You blind fools! Which is greater: the gold, or the temple that makes the gold sacred? 18 You also say, ‘If anyone swears by the altar, it means nothing; but anyone who swears by the gift on the altar is bound by that oath.’ 19 You blind men! Which is greater: the gift, or the altar that makes the gift sacred? 20 Therefore, anyone who swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it. 21 And anyone who swears by the temple swears by it and by the one who dwells in it. 22 And anyone who swears by heaven swears by God’s throne and by the one who sits on it.
How else were they liars?
Matthew 23:29 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! For you build tombs for the prophets, and adorn the tombs of the righteous. 30 And you say, “If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.” 31 So, you bear witness regarding yourselves, that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets. 32 And, you fill up the measure of your fathers. 33 Snakes! Offspring of snakes! How shall you escape the judgment of gehenna? 34 Because of this, behold, I send to you prophets and wise ones and scribes. And some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will flog in your synagogues and will persecute from city to city, 35 so that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zacharias the son of Barachias, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. 36 Amen, I say to you, all these things will come upon this kindred .
Mark 7:4-11
New International Version (NIV)
4 When they come from the marketplace they do not eat unless they wash. And they observe many other traditions, such as the washing of cups, pitchers and kettles. [ a ] )
5 So the Pharisees and teachers of the law asked Jesus, “Why don’t your disciples live according to the tradition of the elders instead of eating their food with defiled hands?”
6 He replied, “Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites; as it is written:
“‘These people honor me with their lips,
but their hearts are far from me.
7 They worship me in vain;
their teachings are merely human rules.’ [ b ]
8 You have let go of the commands of God and are holding on to human traditions.”
9 And he continued, “You have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God in order to observe [ c ] your own traditions! 10 For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and mother,’ [ d ] and, ‘Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.’ [ e ] 11 But you say that if anyone declares that what might have been used to help their father or mother is Corban (that is, devoted to God)—
So it would appear that Jesus was never in dispute with the scriptures he quoted (2 Tim. 3:16) but with what the scribes and Pharisees did with those scriptures and what they added to them. In fact, he condemned them for going beyond WHAT WAS WRITTEN---never condemning what was written.
And it basically comes down to this. The very scriptures you quote from to support your theory that the scribes were lying were the very scriptures that those scribes had written.
