Sid you know that Jesus actually SPECIFICALLY condemned "Mental Reservation?"

Yeah, the Pharisees were emplying that SAME TACTIC, and Jesus called them on it, and here is what he had to say...

The Jews would go out .. SWEAR AN OATH that SOUNDED really binding to the person hearing it, loaded with religous words. Of course, the Pharisee had INSERTED into that oath, a WEASLE WORD or clause, that allowed him to SWEAR, yet not honor, all within the bounds of Canon Law....errr.....Jewish Rabbinical Law. EXACTLY the same thing, for the same reasons to, to LIE and CHEAT, yet claim you were sanctified and holy.

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Matthew 23:16 (KJV) Woe unto you, [ye] blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!

17 [Ye] fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?

18 And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty.

19 [Ye] fools and blind: for whether [is] greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?

20 Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon.

21 And whoso shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein.