God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
(Numbers 23:19) KJV
God can’t lie and the Bible is true.
Principia Mattymatica – Principle I
We’ve made significant progress using this principle to resolve major issues, including the nature of gravity and planetary orbits, which allow a harmonization of the Bible with physical evidence and empirical observations.
It’s quite natural for there to be an attack on our premise: God cannot lie. The following list, provided by members of the Twitter community, is supposedly a list of Bible passages in which God lies.
Does God Lie in the Bible?
- Genesis 2:17, 3:4
- 1 Kings 22:6, 22:19-23
- 2 Chronicles 18:22
- Job 1:21
- Psalm 201:7
- Proverbs 6:16-19
- Jeremiah 4:10, 20:7
- Ezekiel 14:9
- Matthew 12:40
- Matthew 16:28, Mark 9:1, Luke 9:27
- John 7:8-10
- John 8:44
- John 14:11-14
- 2 Thessalonians 2:11
- Malachi 3:10 vs. Luke 4:12
- Psalms 22:19 vs. Matthew 21:17
- Ecclesiastes 1:4
- Ecclesiastes 9:5