A man acts dishonestly, purposely lying or making false claims, acting with malicious intention or ill will. When this is done, he later claims he is an honest man as he tries to establish himself as acceptable and good.
Such a man is not honest, neither is he being honest when he claims honesty as a trait or characteristic. In order that this man establish honesty, that he can rightly claim, he must first reconcile the harm and/or error he committed when he acted dishonestly and with malicious intentions.
Without this reconciliation, that man can never claim he is honest, because honesty demands he take responsibility for his wrongs and recompense those who he has harmed or done ill toward.
A dishonest man cannot claim honesty.
I have experienced such people, both in and out of the position of authority outside of the Church, but not in this Church, especially not with any person in the position of Church authority.
It seems that those who are not of God, not working to be his faithful are the ones most prone to this dishonest man syndrome. I have experienced this problem a lot with Anti-Mormons and some Ex-Mormons, because once they break the faith, their hearts and minds become focused on wrong things and wrong beliefs.
