Comments on: Does God Lie?

By: MSH

MSH — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 03:05:04 +0000

I think you need to read the post more closely. I’m not saying lying and deception are the same, for one thing.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:26:08 +0000

God and Jesus And the Holy Spirt and Mary do not lie• but really do what’s Best.

Because its not called lying in heaven.

By: MSH

MSH — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 03:58:07 +0000

Lying is uttering something false / contrary to reality. Deception is withholding information or misdirecting (in simplest terms). God did that on occasion in the OT to punish evil or evildoers. It’s up to him to decide how to judge sin when he deems it is time.

By: Mike Burke

Mike Burke — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 02:30:22 +0000

So it seems that you’re saying that God doesn’t lie, but He does sometimes deceive?

What’s the difference, and why does God do one, and not the other?

By: MSH

MSH — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 07:21:31 +0000

what’s there is there (or not). I don’t delete anything on the back end.

By: Mike Burke

Mike Burke — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 19:56:30 +0000

This is a very interesting thread, but did it end on March 25th, 2010?

Have there been no followups or replies since then (and if there have, how do I get to them)?

How do we define the difference between lying and deception?

By: Doug Van Dorn

Doug Van Dorn — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:49:20 +0000

As far as John 7:8 is concerned: This one has a textual variant ??? (not) {C by Metzger} vs. ???? (not yet). It is dubious to make a case for this particular example on such a textual difficultly as this. If the later is the correct, Jesus never even deceived anyone.

By: Doug Van Dorn

Doug Van Dorn — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:48:55 +0000

This one has a textual variant ??? (not) {C by Metzger} vs. ???? (not yet). It is dubious to make a case for this particular example on such a textual difficultly as this. If the later is the correct, Jesus never even deceived anyone.

By: rode

rode — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:28:17 +0000

i’m still trying to get my head around this hehe:
“As with the ninth command, there are also “exceptions” (really “other contexts”) where taking life is permissible — and even expected. Most of the commands have biblical “exceptions” of some type — because they have contexts and other things in the Bible are exempted (by the Bible). Maybe we’ll get into some of those as well.”

can’t wait for the follow up

By: rode

rode — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:22:28 +0000

wow, this is really veeeeery interesting…. GREAT POST