Do Christians have to tell the truth in all situations? What about situations where telling a lie may save someone’s life?

Joseph Fletcher had what is described as the “one norm ethic of love” in his controversial “Situation Ethics: The New Morality.” He wrote that the situation trumps Scripture: “Situation ethics ... goes part of the way with Scriptural law by accepting revelation as the source of the norm while rejecting all ‘revealed’ norms or laws but the one command----to love God in the neighbor .... We are only ‘obliged to tell the truth, for example, if the situation calls for it; if a murderer asks us his victim’s whereabouts, our duty might be to lie.”[3]