God can't lie? Why is that? I thought God was omnipotent.
If anything less than infallibility is exhibited, he's not God. The mark of a divine message is that it is absolute truthfulness. God Himself spoke in the following passage about how he expected nothing but absolute truth from his prophets concerning the message He had given to them or they were put to death.
I'm just curious as to where in the bible God said God can't lie, and how you know that couldn't have been a lie? God certainly engaged in a certain amount of deceit in pursuading Jacob God intended him to put his eldest son to death, so it seems unlikely that a little fibbing is beyond Him.
Being omnipotent doesn't mean that He can do something that runs counter to His character. He can't be the God who never lies and the God who lies at the same time - good grief, you weren't serious with that, were you? On post 643 I referenced a bunch of verses that says that God can't lie. Here is one of them....
Titus 1:2 'In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;'
There are actually a number of things God can't do. Here's a few more.
2 Timothy 2:13 'If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.' ....he can't deny himself.
Malachi 3:6 'For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.' ....He can't change.
God certainly engaged in a certain amount of deceit in pursuading Jacob God intended him to put his eldest son to death, so it seems unlikely that a little fibbing is beyond Him.
And your reference for this is?