When people lie or speak falsely in the Bible, it represents the "falsity of faith" and the resulting "evil of faith." This is what happens when people form their ideas based on bad information and incorrect assumptions. This leads to wrong ways of thinking and evil.

(Odkazy: Apocalypse Revealed 924; Arcana Coelestia 8908 [3-4], 9248)

6707. From all this it is now plain that the degree in which each individual person is the neighbour is determined by the character of his Christian good. For since that good is the Lord's He is present in it, and the degree of His presence is decided by the character of it. And because the origin of the neighbour ought to be traced back to the Lord, it is also plain that distinctions of the neighbour are determined by the different degrees of the Lord's presence in good, thus by the character of that good.