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1. Sarah may have been Abraham's "step-sister' but he married her and thus she was his covenant bound wife.
2. All else he wrote concerning Abraham's statement concerning Sarah is total sophistry.

Conclusion: Joseph Fletcher would be proud of James B. Jordon. Jordon is guilty of using Situation Ethics to justify the lie that Abraham spoke.

1. "But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man's wife." (Gen. 20:2) It is God's truth that states that Sarah was Abraham's wife and not his step-sister and thus Abimelech was guilty of sin.

2. The apple doesn't fall too far from the tree for Isaac was guilty of the same sin of lying when Abimelech saw him fondling Rebekah his wife and told Abimelech that she was his sister.