Is God The Father Of Truth

[Space_Karen]

The devil is called the father of lies.

Does it make God the Father of truth? "You shall know the truth, and it (He) shall make you free."

In the old testament when israelites turn their backs on God to worship other idols.

Is it fair to suggest israelites may have also turned their backs on truth in favor of lies. 

Seeking truth and making decisions based on truth (God) leads to happiness and prosperity. While by contrast seeking lies and making decisions based on lies (Devil) will instead lead to recession, misery and suffering.

Of course there are other variables. Not everyone who suffers deserves it by their life choices.

But generally speaking nations where citizens make choices based on fact and truth experience far less corruption and higher standard of living. In contrast to nations which makes choices based on deceptions and lies.

Fact and truth are not things which we can acquire through prayer. Just as a person will usually not know all of the answers to a test by praying. So we will usually not have the answers we seek in life, through prayer alone. "Seek and ye shall find" suggests searching is a necessity. Christians must embark upon a personal quest to seek truth and answers, before they can find what they search for.

 

[missmuffet]

To say that God is truth is to acknowledge that truth itself proceeds from the nature of God. While many things can have the truth, only one thing can be the truth, with that one thing being God Himself.

[JohnR7]

6 hours ago, Space_Karen said:

Of course there are other variables. Not everyone who suffers deserves it by their life choices.

We do not suffer just for our own personal sin. We suffer for the salvation and redemption of all creation. 

Romans 8:17
And if we are children, then we are heirs: heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ--if indeed we suffer with Him, so that we may also be glorified with Him.

What credit would it be if we just suffered for ourselves and our own transgressions? 

[Waggles]

8 hours ago, Space_Karen said:

Does it make God the Father of truth? "You shall know the truth, and it (He) shall make you free."

Proverbs chapter 8

1  Does not wisdom call? Does not understanding raise her voice? 
2  On the heights beside the way, at the crossroads she takes her stand; 
3  beside the gates in front of the town, at the entrance of the portals she cries aloud: 
4  “To you, O men, I call, and my cry is to the children of man. 
5  O simple ones, learn prudence; O fools, learn sense. 
6  Hear, for I will speak noble things, and from my lips will come what is right, 
7  for my mouth will utter truth; wickedness is an abomination to my lips. 
8  All the words of my mouth are righteous; there is nothing twisted or crooked in them. 
9  They are all straight to him who understands, and right to those who find knowledge. 
10  Take my instruction instead of silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold, 
11  for wisdom is better than jewels, and all that you may desire cannot compare with her. 
12  “I, wisdom, dwell with prudence, and I find knowledge and discretion. 
13  The fear of the LORD is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate. 
14  I have counsel and sound wisdom; I have insight; I have strength. 
15  By me kings reign, and rulers decree what is just; 
16  by me princes rule, and nobles, all who govern justly. 
17  I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me. 
18  Riches and honour are with me, enduring wealth and righteousness. 
19  My fruit is better than gold, even fine gold, and my yield than choice silver. 
20  I walk in the way of righteousness, in the paths of justice, 
21  granting an inheritance to those who love me, and filling their treasuries. 
22  “The LORD possessed me at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of old. 
23  Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth. 
24  When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water. 
25  Before the mountains had been shaped, before the hills, I was brought forth, 
26  before he had made the earth with its fields, or the first of the dust of the world. 
27  When he established the heavens, I was there; when he drew a circle on the face of the deep, 
28  when he made firm the skies above, when he established the fountains of the deep, 
29  when he assigned to the sea its limit, so that the waters might not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth, 
30  then I was beside him, like a master workman, and I was daily his delight, rejoicing before him always, 
31  rejoicing in his inhabited world and delighting in the children of man. 
32  “And now, O sons, listen to me: blessed are those who keep my ways. 
33  Hear instruction and be wise, and do not neglect it. 
34  Blessed is the one who listens to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting beside my doors. 
35  For whoever finds me finds life and obtains favour from the LORD, 
36  but he who fails to find me injures himself; all who hate me love death.” 
 

[Waggles]

John 14:16  And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, 
17  even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.

John 15:26  “But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me.

John 16:13  When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. 
14  He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you. 

[Sower]

14 hours ago, Space_Karen said:

Does it make God the Father of truth?

"This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you,

that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all"