God cannot lie.

Titus 1:2    In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;  Hebrews 6:18    That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:

You might be thinking duh.  Of course God cannot lie.  But if you stop just for a moment and think about it, you will see that most churches, bible colleges, and preachers, actually teach that God does lie.  Let me give you just a few examples.

The Bible is very clear that man cannot work his way to heaven.  Isaiah 64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags…  Your works do not impress God.  The Bible says they are as filthy rags!  Ephesians 2:8-9 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast.  That is pretty clear.  You are saved through faith and not of yourselves, not of works!  And yet works is what the Catholics teach, and the Mormons, as well as many others.  By teaching a works salvation contrary to what God has said, they are teaching that they are right and God is wrong.  They are teaching that God lied!

The Bible teaches that you cannot buy your way to heaven.  Acts 8:20  But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.  Both the man and his money perished because he could not buy the gift of God with money.  It is so basic.  If you buy something, then it is no longer a gift.  And yet the Catholics teach that you can buy your way out of purgatory and into heaven.  They are teaching that they are right and God is wrong.  They are teaching that God lied!

God said that his words are pure and perfect and that He would preserve them.  He said that they shall not pass away.  Psalm 12:6-7  The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.  Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.  Matthew 24:35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.  So either God’s words are with us today or God lied.  You have no other choice.  And yet most churches’ statement of faith says that God’s words are perfect but only in the original autographs.  In other words God lied and did not preserve his pure perfect words for us today.  They are teaching that they are right and God is wrong.  They are teaching that God lied!

And the list would be endless.  I am glad that my God cannot lie.  I am glad that I have His words in my Bible, and that I can trust them because God cannot lie.