I thought this was a very captivating and interesting article written here. The thought never really came to me of whether God could be lying to us or not. Based on the ethics of mostly every religion, it's required and ethical to listen to our God and what he teaches us. When God speaks, people need to listen, but what if what he is saying isn't the truth? The article took on multiple perspectives of different philosophers and theologians from the past.
A 14th century Oxford theologian named John Wyclif feared that if God did happen to lie to us, he could give us false visions of the world and reduce reality to just its appearance and reduce our knowledge of the world. No one besides Martin Luther ever had the idea or assertion that God could lie. A man named Augustine argues that God can neither deceive or be deceived. If God is the almighty being that he is, then there should not be any thought of him lying to us or what he is preaching about the world isn't truthful. The same argument is made by French philosopher Rene Descartes. If God was the all-powerful force of the world, then it would be impossible that he could be a deceiver.
However, there are a couple of cases where some philosophers say that God could possibly be a deceiver. A 14th century Dominican theologian named Robert Holkot claims that there could be a number of places within the Bible where God deceived demons, sinners, and even the faithful ones. He argued that God deceived Abraham when he ordered to kill his son Isaac only to revoke that order at the very last moment as Abraham held the knife over his trembling and tied up son. A couple of centuries later, John Calvin also reached this same idea. The argument could go many ways, but in all, it would be impossible for God to be a deceiver because he is the almighty ruler of the universe and it he lied to everyone, then he would not earn that distinct title.
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