November 5th, 2009
23 Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil concerning thee.
In 1 Kings 22, we find that this is told to Ahab by Micaiah as part of a prophesy that foretells his death. While it seems as if God isn’t the one making people lie and is a spirit, it does seem as if God endorses this spirit and employs it to cause people to lie. This is right in line with verses that suggest that God made people believe lies, so it’s not so far-fetched that he would also make people tell lies.
It has been suggested that the prophet is the one who lied. Some have said that he told this prophecy as a means to keep Ahab from going to war and that neither God nor a spirit caused anyone to lie. In that case, the prophet himself was the liar, which throws in suspicion the reliability of this and all other profits. If a prophet can lie, then how can we trust what they say?
Either the prophets can lie because God made them lie, or they can simply lie on their own. How can we tell that the King James Bible was written by truthful prophets? How can we tell that everything they spoke was the truth? If there’s anything you can take from this website, it is that the King James Bible is not perfect. It is flawed, and it does contain falsehoods. If one part of the King James Bible can be wrong, then it is possible that all of it is wrong. At the very least, it cannot claim to be the perfect, inerrant word of God. This collection of books reveals itself to be the flawed, immoral writings of primitive men.