{"id":156,"date":"2009-01-20T08:30:17","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T12:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timothymallon.com\/blog\/?p=156"},"modified":"2009-01-21T18:04:58","modified_gmt":"2009-01-21T22:04:58","slug":"god-was-a-truth-teller-from-the-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timothymallon.com\/blog\/god-was-a-truth-teller-from-the-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"God was a truth-teller from the beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, yeah, tell me something I don&#8217;t know. Well, I don&#8217;t know why this thought struck me so. I was thinking about how Jesus, in John 8:44, says that Satan is a murderer and liar. Satan is the father of lies.<\/p>\n<p>Another verse came to mind: Romans 3:4 which says &#8220;&#8230; let God be true but every man a liar. &#8230;&#8221; and Titus 1:2 which says&#8230; &#8220;God, who cannot lie&#8221;. So of course we know that God tells the truth. He was a truth teller from our beginning. He has no beginning or end and <strong>has always been<\/strong> and <strong>will always be<\/strong> a truth-teller&#8230; and the Father of truth-tellers.<\/p>\n<p>Remember when Pilate asked Jesus &#8220;What is truth?&#8221;. Jesus had answered that in two ways earlier. He prayed to His Father in John 17 to set apart His disciples by truth&#8230; then He clarified it by saying to the Father &#8220;Your word is truth&#8221;. Also in John 14:6 Jesus said &#8220;I am the way, the truth, the life&#8230;&#8221;. So the Word of God is truth and Jesus is truth. &#8220;In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and <strong>the Word was God<\/strong>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>Let God be true but every man, including myself, a liar, if ever His truth is questioned&#8230;. for <strong>He and His word are it<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;Would you condemn Me that you may be justified?&#8221; Job 40:8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, yeah, tell me something I don&#8217;t know. Well, I don&#8217;t know why this thought struck me so. I was thinking about how Jesus, in John 8:44, says that Satan is a murderer and liar. Satan is the father of lies. Another verse came to mind: Romans 3:4 which says &#8220;&#8230; let God be true &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/timothymallon.com\/blog\/god-was-a-truth-teller-from-the-beginning\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">God was a truth-teller from the beginning<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[92],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pnDOA-2w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timothymallon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timothymallon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timothymallon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timothymallon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timothymallon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/timothymallon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160,"href":"https:\/\/timothymallon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions\/160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timothymallon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timothymallon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timothymallon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}