What do we owe one another and what happens to a society when we forget?
On Moral Duties (De Officiis) by Cicero
The ethic of the end justifies the means is no ethic at all.
A physiological biological result has actual repercussions: Research proves that deliberately told lies destroy brain cells making it ever more easy to lie again until the liar can no longer tell what the truth is. Immorality destroys what you are and creates a new person who is both reprehensible and incorrigible, totally without redemption.
Herbert Armstrong failed the test spectacularly so many times. So have all the ministers after him.
Can you pass the test, older than Christianity?
