To: ScubieNuc; wagglebee
God cannot act against His nature. He cannot cease to exist because His nature is existence itself. So too, since His nature is truth itself, He cannot deceive. Setting up a theology which is necessary for salvation and then hiding that truth would be deception, which is impossible for God.
361 posted on
01/25/2007 1:19:24 PM PST by
mockingbyrd
(peace begins in the womb)
To: mockingbyrd; ScubieNuc; wagglebee
In addition, any thing that is created, but is not rightly ordered (i.e., lacking), is considered "evil". For someone to contend that Jesus created the Church from the very beginning without completeness (fullness) of Truth, is to assert that Christ created something evil, which is categorically impossible.
372 posted on
01/25/2007 1:34:44 PM PST by
Rutles4Ever
(Ubi Petrus, ibi ecclesia, et ubi ecclesia vita eterna)
To: mockingbyrd
So too, since His nature is truth itself, He cannot deceive. Setting up a theology which is necessary for salvation and then hiding that truth would be deception, which is impossible for God.
I never said that God deceived. God's truth is in His Word, the Scriptures. The only deceiving that went on was by those who had the Word, but hid it from the people.
381 posted on
01/25/2007 2:02:11 PM PST by
ScubieNuc
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