The Bible does not LIE, it is simply inaccurate in many details. Were the authors of the Bible deliberately deceitful? At least some of what is in the Gospels seems to be quite inaccurate.
Such as the part when it claims that when Jesus died, there was a THREE HOUR LONG eclipse. That is astronomically impossible, it did not happen. And when dead people pop out of their graves, everyone notices. But of the four Gospels, only one mentions this.
I think that Paul was the most deceitful of the Bible's writers. He seems to have made up a lot of silly stuff about how Jesus was coming very very soon, and insisting on this over and over, after it did not happen.