If there is a God he is a deceiver for if he is good he cannot tempt us
to sin but then how come he put the inclination and liking for sin in us which
amounts to the same thing? Such a God
would be an impossibility.
If
God lies we can trust nothing he says for it may be a lie told for a mysterious
purpose. It does not show that
everything he says has to be a lie. That
is why religion has to forbid lies so that we can trust in its revelation from
God. Revelation implies a God who
scrupulously serves the truth.
God’s
asking for trust would be a brutal lie if he has no right to.
God
may assist liars by refusing to expose them.
Religion says he may have to do this for his purpose for he sees some worthwhile
good in it. They conclude that he can do
this and not tell a lie himself. But
when he assists lies he has no business boasting that he is truthful for he is
not that worried about truth and so we cannot take his word for it. God makes mad people tell believable lies
which is lying through them. He after
all is supposed to be in control and holds creation in existence. So he is responsible. If truth is so important than God cannot lie
then he cannot let lies go unexposed either but he does. Not exposing a lie can do more damage than
telling a lie. So if God causes lies he
would lie himself. Certainly, he might
assist in lies and not lie but if lying is so bad then he would lie. You don’t trust the statements of a man about
his neighbours when he lies about what is on the television though they are two
different things. Only a person who is
insane would trust him and religion wants us to trust God who is as bad. God unjustly wants us to mistrust man and
trust him though both are as shifty.
God
could fib. Telling huge lies means you
would tell fibs but telling fibs does not mean you would tell big lies. But no revelation says God fibs. And when God demands death rather than
apostasy or dissent from what he says no lie he tells is a fib. In the Bible he ordered Jesus to die at his
command and urged the legal murder of adulterous people and homosexuals.
Some
say God could tell us to lie but not lie himself. Does that leave room for trusting God? But when lying is
absolutely forbidden by God and killing and hurting are not it is obvious that
God cherishes truth above all else.
Now, if truth should be ranked so highly then God cannot tolerate lies. He has to tell people when they have been
lied to. He cannot pull the mad person’s
strings to make them lie. If he does
these things then he would lie himself.
That is the answer to those who say we have no reason to distrust God if
he causes or preserves lies so we should trust him as long as he doesn’t actually
tell a lie himself.
Some
say we should not be sceptical of everything God says if he lies or causes
lies. But that would mean we should only
believe God when it makes sense to us.
But God has to be mysterious. He
only tells us a little and reveals things that seem incoherent and contradictory
to us such as that he is one God in three persons. So all that is out.
If we listened to reason we would not believe God at all and we would
not need him to talk.
God
being spirit is his attributes such as truthfulness. God is infinite truth so there is no untruth
at all. So if God is a spirit he cannot
have anything to do with lies or assisting in them at all. This tells us there is no God when lies are
maintained in the world.
If
God wants us to believe and is right in saying we owe it to him to believe then
lies and anything to do with them is forbidden no matter what the circumstances
for if he permits them we would not be able to trust him for his ways are
mysterious. The revelation dogma calls
on the world to become a bloodbath which is what will happen when lying is
banned totally.
Jesus said that we must
love God with ALL our being and this is THE greatest commandment meaning that
subscribing to divine revelation is of supreme importance and even dying to
avoid lying is right.