The nature of lie (1)

“⁴⁴Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it” Jn 8. Jesus Christ is the way, the truth and the life (Jn.14,6). Therefore God, his Father, is the Father of truth,

and behold on the other side the devil is the father of lie. It is useful to establish the parallelism between the two lines.

Each single word in this passage is to be taken in its importance: the father of lies does not stand in the Truth. These words are addressed to the children of the devil who had believed in the Truth (v.30-31). Thus, it is not said that the devil or his children cannot believe the Truth or tell the truth, etc.., No! We must abide by the terms. In the Garden of Eden the devil told some truth to the woman (Ge.3,1), in the desert he spoke some truth when he tempted Jesus, amid the sons of God in the presence of God to accuse Job he told some truth (Job1,9-10), and the evil spirits that Jesus drove out from people they possessed always confessed that he was the Christ. If anyone says that God is good, great and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in love, he tells the truth. But this does not mean he is not a liar! The devil knows, believes and confesses much more than that, and yet he is and remains a liar and the father of lie. What is lie?

In this passage we read that the liar does not stand in the truth. And the Lord said to those who had believed in him, “³¹If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed”  The disciples of Truth are those who, not only tell or believe the Truth, but stand or continue in it, and that's what the liar cannot do. He may also believe, tell or confess the Truth, but he cannot fit in all Truth. King James rendered, ​​"If ye continue in my word.“  So the liar is one who does not stand, abide or continue in the truth until the end, even though he may believe or confess it. The truth has pure and eternal nature and there is no variableness, neither shadow of turning in it (Js 1:17), it is light and there is no darkness in it (1Jn 1:5).

We know that the Truth is Christ (Jn.14,6). The truth is the word of God as pronounced and understood by God himself (see publication The Word of God in your mouth is Truth). Each single Bible verse to be true, needs to have only biblical understanding and presentation, not theological. The word of God understood and presented from a certain private point of view, same is the lie. A Bible verse out of the overall biblical context is not truth. Hereby is even the meaning of standing or not standing in the Truth. One who stands in the truth has not only the letter, but also the spirit of truth, the inspirer of the Holy Scriptures and can in no way contradict, modify or alter a single passage of the Scriptures. Let's just have a short look upon all these truths that the devil and his children tell, as of the Garden of Eden (Genesis 3), while never standing or continuing in the truth:

“¹Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?”   God had actually said. But first, notice here how he tells the truth while calling it into question: Yea, hath God said? Second, he told the truth by distorting it to deliberately create confusion: Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden. The Lord had never forbidden to eat of every tree of the garden, but only that of the knowledge of good and evil. Third, he denies the truth in favor of his own doctrine “⁴And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: ⁵For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.”  That's it! The liar could not fit within the limits of the word of God. He was merely able to use it to subtly introduce his own doctrine: calling the word into question, distorting the word and overthrowing the word to establish his own doctrine.

Satan, when God praised Job (Job 1), did not replied, 'No, I do not agree with you, Lord, I think you exaggerate a bit,' he believed and agreed and, as always, he questioned or challenged the divine declaration “⁹Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought?” Second, he said the truth with the intention to misrepresent it “¹⁰Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.” Here Satan is loud and clear that God will bless us, protect us, etc. - What is the truth - but this is a bribe so that we should fear him - which is a distortion, we shall have an opportunity to demonstrate this in one of our future publications. Third, he introduced his own doctrine “¹¹But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.” Same approach as in the Garden of Eden, using the truth to overthrow the truth and introduce his own doctrine.

In the desert, while tempting the Lord (Luke 4), Satan introduced, accompanied or supported each of these temptations by a word of truth: “³And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God…”  because he knew he actually was according to the truth, which all his angels even confessed whenever they met the Lord. But being faithful to his strategy, he told the truth by challenging it: « If thou be the Son of God …» And then afterwards, “⁶And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.”  He is misquoting here the truth in the passage of the apostle John, found in his first epistle chapter 5 “¹⁹And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.” But God has never given the world to Satan, but he deceived mankind through the woman and usurped the authority God had given to Adam. And, notwithstanding the fact, thus saith the Lord God Almighty “⁴Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD’s thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is.” Dt 10. Finally Satan quotes Psalm 91:11-12 not for the truth to be honored, but to push the Lord to obey him. A very wonderful notice in this scene of temptation, the Lord always recalled him 'It is (also) written' demonstrating that he had quoted the scriptures while twisting, distorting, altering them and causing them to conflict with other passages of Scripture. Jesus was fully aware of the scriptures, and that is what every Christian should zealously seek after.

Without intention to offend anyone, but in my responsibility that I have to account for one day, namely knowing the truth and hiding it, I have to take a current example of this learned satanic maneuver which consists in using the truth to steal the people away from the truth. It is about the recital known as the "Hail Mary" which is supposedly taken from Chapter 1 of the Gospel according to St Luke. Its introduction that draws its references from the 28th verse says as follows “Hail Mary,
Full of Grace, The Lord is with thee." Everything started well, but soon after the first comma, the truth is distorted, seeing the Scripture rather says, “²⁸And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.” Mary was favored or given grace, but not full of grace. And this is confirmed in verse 30 when the angel told her “Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God.”  Like any sinner, Mary was troubled and filled with awe, and therefore was she reassured that she had found favor with God as you and I have found grace with the same God in Christ-Jesus. In the first chapter of the Gospel of St. John, the Bible presents one who is full of grace and truth, he is called the Word: “¹⁴And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.”

Then this recital goes on with a part drawn from verse 42 ‘Blessed art thou among women,
and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.' All this being the background for the last part, which shall completely deny and overthrow the truth, “Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now,
and at the hour of death. Amen!” a new doctrine Romano-pagan and abominable, since God who is eternal cannot have a mother. A doctrine contrary to the scriptures which recognize only one intercessor or advocate between men and God, Jesus Christ the righteous, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus (1 Timothy 2:5, He 12 : 24).

These things are so vital, and with the grace of God I will discuss them in my next publications. But we have already been allowed to learn in this issue that, if the truth excludes the lie, the lie, unlike, does not exist without the truth. Moreover, the lie always departs from the foundations of truth which it calls into question, distorts, twists, alters, and eventually denies and overthrows. And this process is called ‘standing not in the truth'. Therefore, when a person does not stand in the truth, you need to cut him off from the first distortion, as did the Lord to the serpent who tempted him in the desert, because even the few Bible verses that he pretends to recognize, he shall eventually deny and pervert them. The devil shall then depart from you as he left our Lord.

There is no malignant lie and mild or non-malignant lie, because each single lie has the single goal: to overthrow the truth insomuch as any lie identifies with the genealogy that goes all the way back to the liar, father of lie, and author of this goal. The whole of humanity is victim of a lie that our mother Eve allowed in, while in the Garden of Eden. Today all the kings of the earth have committed fornication with the prostitute of Revelation 17and all the inhabitants of the earth have been intoxicated with the wine of her fornication (v.2), because of the lie that the spiritual woman, the church of Christ, allowed in by entering into a marriage with Roman paganism. Rev 2 “²⁹He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.”

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