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What Does “Every Man a Liar” Mean?

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Mike Vinson
11 years ago

Mike,

I have a question about something I read on Is Was and Will Be in the section Should Christians Try to Interpret The Stars?

“Let God be true and every man a liar.” What does it mean by “every man a liar”? We were all created and molded by God. Our actions/ words and everything we think and do is all God’s will, none of this is us doing it. So why would it say “man a liar” If everything we do is God’s will?

I believe God has revealed to me that it is All him doing EVERYTHING, nothing is a lie or Bad. I understand that our carnal bodies can’t understand that. So can you please let me know what the spiritual aspect of “Let God be true and every man a liar” is saying.

C____

Hi C____,

It is good to hear from you, and thank you for your question.

You said:

“Let God be true and every man a liar.” What does it mean by “every man a liar”? We were all created and molded by God. Our actions/ words and everything we think and do is all God’s will, none of this is us doing it. So why would it say “man a liar” if everything we do is God’s will?”

I believe God has revealed to me that it is All him doing EVERYTHING, nothing is a lie or Bad. I understand that our carnal bodies can’t understand that. So can you please let me know what the spiritual aspect of “Let God be true and every man a liar” is saying.”

The answer is that God does not tell us that “everything we do is God’s will”. Rather what He does tell us is that He is “working” everything, “all things after the counsel of His own will”. Your statement “nothing is a lie, or bad” is itself a very ‘bad lie’. There is a world of difference between your statement “it is all him doing everything, nothing is a lie or bad” and the Biblical statement that “God… is working all things after the counsel of His own will”. Your statement turns God’s grace into lasciviousness, while the Truth of Eph 1:11 brings us to repentance through fiery trials, which, in the end produces life.

It certainly is not Biblically true that “nothing is a lie or bad”. If that were so then these verses would have no revelation or relevance to us:

Pro 16:4 The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.
Pro 16:5 Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.
Pro 16:6 By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil.

Eph 1:11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

To say “Nothing is a lie or bad” is to say ‘Nothing is evil’. If that were true, then there would be no “wicked men for the day of evil”, and there would be no need for “the fear of the Lord”. Whereas we are taught from the murder of Abel by Cain to the selling of Joseph into Egypt by his brothers, to the adultery with Bathsheba, and the murder of Uriah, Bathsheba’s husband, by King David to the crucifixion of Christ Himself, that “the wages of sin (evil) is death” and that it is only “by the fear of the Lord [that] men depart from that evil”, and that all the efforts of men to the contrary “though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished”.

So no matter how many “hands join in hands” to say otherwise, “wicked men… shall not go unpunished”, and these words are the truth of God’s word:

Gal 6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

There are two very important Biblical doctrines which are missing in the lies of the churches. Those two doctrines, which literally fill the pages of scripture, are that 1) “Every man” is facing a day of fiery judgment for what God has done with them in these bodies of clay, and that 2) Through that fiery judgment and the destruction of our “rebellious… old… first man Adam… every man… shall be saved, yet though as by fire”.

1Co 3:13 Every man‘s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man‘s work of what sort it is.
1Co 3:14 If any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
1Co 3:15 If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
1Co 3:16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
1Co 3:17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

1Pe 4:12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:

Another word for ‘fire’ in scripture is God’s “chastening and scourging”.

Heb 12:6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, [Greek, paideuo] and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
Heb 12:7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
Heb 12:8 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

The words “every son” means there are no exceptions to God’s fiery chastening.

Here is what this “chastening… fire” accomplishes within the lives of those within whom Christ is dwelling:

Tit 2:11 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
Tit 2:12 Teaching [the Greek is paideuo, chastening, fiery chastening] us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts [evil], we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

So that is the function of God’s chastening grace. It chastens and spanks us and scourges us to “deny ungodliness and worldly lusts, [and]… live soberly and righteously, and godly, in this present age”.

There is a world of difference between the concept of “everything we do is God’s will” and the concept of God “working all things after the counsel of His own will” . The former leads us to turning the grace of God into lasciviousness, and the latter leads to understanding that God has made us all evil for the purpose of humbling us, chastening us, and in the end destroying our flesh, the very “marred” flesh which He made us to be. Then through the process of that destruction and death of our “rebellious… old… first man Adam” He is in the process of bringing forth “the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of Him that created Him.”

Ecc 1:13 And I have given my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that hath been done under the heavens. It is a sad travail [Hebrew, experience of evil] God hath given to the sons of man to be humbled by it.

Joh 12:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
Joh 12:25 He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.

Col 3:10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:

What Col 3:10 reveals is that “the first man, Adam” was not the finished product. We have been lied to when we were told that ‘Adam was created perfect, but he suffered a fall, and through that fall death came on all men’. That is a lie. “The first man Adam” was never intended to “inherit the kingdom of God”. He was made of clay and was, by God’s own design, “after the counsel of His own will… marred in the hand of The Potter”, made in a ‘fallen’ state, for the very purpose of coming to see his need for a Savior, who would, “through death”, His own death, and us “being crucified with Him” (Gal 2:20), “renew [us] in knowledge after the image of him that created [us]”.

Jer 18:4 And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.

Eph 1:11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

It is true that God is working all things after the counsel of His own will, but if it were true that “nothing is a lie or bad” then God would have nothing for which to judge us as He tells us He is already doing with those who are His:

1Pe 4:17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?

Today, this life is the “day of judgment” for all those who “know the time of their visitation”, the ignorance of which was why Christ wept over Jerusalem:

Luk 19:41 And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,
Luk 19:42 Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.
Luk 19:43 For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side,
Luk 19:44 And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.

I hope this has helped you to see that while God does not hold us accountable or responsible, for our own sins, He will nevertheless, cause us to “give an accounting” of our stewardship of the time we spend in these “marred vessels of clay”.

Luk 16:2 And he called him, and said unto him, How is it that I hear this of thee? give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward.

I hope this is of some direction and edification to you and that He worked Christ weeping over Jerusalem, and making all men liars, and that it is His will which cannot be resisted, to make us give and accounting for what we have done in these bodies of “sinful flesh”.

YbiC,

Mike

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