Or is there a possibility that what God stated in Exodus Chapter 20 is the God's honest truth?
Is Exodus Chapter 21 God's honest truth?
Why wouldn't it be?
Jesus put his stamp of approval on the Law, did he not?
Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. (Matthew 5:17-18 KJV)