Deu 19:15 One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.
How many people have been put in jail because of the testimony of an unreliable or false witness. Recently there have been studies that have proved that the eye witness account of a person can be inaccurate. The person may believe that he has identified the right person or recalled an event correctly, but in reality he could be wrong. Just recently a man was released after spending 30 years in prison.
Eyewitness misidentification is the single greatest cause of wrongful convictions nationwide, playing a role in more than 75% of convictions overturned through DNA testing. (http://www.innocenceproject.org/)
Not only in the judicial system, but how much more in our interaction with people at work, school, and church should we not listen or believe the testimony of just one person. This principle in the Bible was given to us over 3,500 years ago, it is time that we started taking it seriously.
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