Let God Be True And Every Man A Liar

Job 40:8

1 The Lord said to Job:

2 “Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct him? Let him who accuses God answer him!” 3 Then Job answered the Lord: 4 “I am unworthy —how can I reply to you? I put my hand over my mouth. 5 I spoke once, but I have no answer — twice, but I will say no more.” 6 Then the Lord spoke to Job out of the storm: 7 “Brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer me. 8 “Would you discredit my justice? Would you condemn me to justify yourself? 9 Do you have an arm like God’s, and can your voice thunder like his? 10 Then adorn yourself with glory and splendor, and clothe yourself in honor and majesty.

What the Lord spoke to Job is common among man, we will condemn God to justify ourselves, our intents, our motives, our actions, our ignorance and beliefs so that we may justify ourselves in ourselves to ourselves before an Almighty God. We call our wrongs right, God’s justice unjustified, His truth unrecognizable and unknowing, all to falsify, mislead or misrepresent our own ways in acceptance. Come on now! You know it’s the truth!

I want you to notice something in Roman’s 3:3-4, how Paul sets up a parallel between verses 3 & 4. In verse three the two elements are “unbelief” and “faith of God.” In verse four the elements are “every man a liar” and “God be true.” Now, the purpose of this parallel is to see the collation between unbelief being equivalent to man lying, and faith in God being equivalent to God being true. Did you get that?

When we accept God’s Word being true, truth, it’s based on believing what He has said, over my opinion, my thoughts or feelings, but my accepting God’s revealed will being the truth – “that’s having faith in God”. This is why “faith cometh by hearing, and hearing comes from the Word of God.” It is the accepting the revealed will of God – “His Word,” over all else!

does not affect the truth, truth’s reality or the importance of truth.

God’s truth is revealed unto man through His Divine Word and that does not change. So, when man does not take God at His Word, man in essences lies, whether it be in himself, to himself or to others, which only expresses man’s lack of faith to God’s truth. And, man's lack of faith in God’s truth will not affect or nullify the faithfulness of God towards judgment of truth. As we know, facts are independent of one’s denials, ignorance’s or affirmations of truth.

What do you mean?

Let me see if I can explain it this way. Say, I take something that doesn’t belong to me, not found it, like walking down the street and see something laying on the ground and no one’s around and I pick it up. I found it. Not that, were I see something and there are others around, and I have no way of discovering who it belongs too. We’re talking about acquiring something for myself, that doesn’t belong to me, and I can easily ask the people in the room or next door, if it’s theirs, because I know someone dropped it, misplaced it, whatever. The matter that I want to believe I didn’t steal it, or ignore that I stole it, doesn’t change the fact, I knew it didn’t belong to me when I acquired it and could have returned it to its owner. That’s stealing, no matter how you look at it! That fact doesn’t change because you add an excuse or explanation to it. You took something that didn’t belong to you, not found it.