Jesus said "with god all things are possible". (matt 19:26) but paul said it's impossible for god to lie. (heb 6:18) who was right?
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Look at the context. With God working for us, it is possible for PEOPLE to do all things. Would you really want a god who lied?
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If God were omnipotent, as many people believe, if he did lie...his "word" would become manifest. His lie would become the truth we see. So, if God were to say, "Gravity repulses," even though it goes against the grain of reality, it would occur (he's omnipotent). So they're both expressions of the same core truth of God's power. Not that I believe in God.
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This is all here say, no one knows if he really said it, the people who wrote the bible could very well have just embellished it, who else agrees?
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It means that with God's help, people can do anything. And it is impossible for God to lie. They are both right.
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God IS TRUTH.
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Jesus said. Paul said. Two different sources. They don't have to agree. We don't really have a clue WHAT Jesus said. All we've got is what others SAY that he said. The gospel writers, by their own admission, weren't even present when he is alleged to have said most of things they quote, and they didn't begin to write down those quotations until 40 years after he was dead. MY memory is not that good. Were theirs? . And I don't believe that Paul wrote that epistle to the Hebrews; the writing style is quite noticeably different from his signed letters. . Maybe God can't lie, but He certainly fudged a few things. Genesis 2:17 "in the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die." They didn't die that day, but hundreds of years later. Genesis 22: God tempted Abraham by ordering him to kill his son. That may not be a direct lie, but it wouldn't hold up in court. Now, it was Gabriel, not Jehovah, who rescinded the order, so maybe that gets Jehovah off the hook. But I don't buy it.
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The answer as I see it is... both. Just because something is "possible" does not mean it HAS to happen. It is just one of many "possibilities" possible - Of uncertain likelihood.
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It is impossible for God to lie and it is also impossible for a man to be saved without God. When (Mat 19:26) and (Heb 6:18) are taken in context, there is no "who was right?".
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both God can make a rock that too big for Him to pick up and then pick it up...just another silly manmade finite argument trying to trick an infinite
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With God all things are possible for MEN. It is impossible for God to lie because there is no reason for Him to. He has no one to answer to, He is the highest authority and has all the answers.
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Well, if its Jesus that was wrong, then being God and Omniscient, he must have known the right answer, and so was lying. but then Paul would be wrong. If Paul is wrong, then anything IS possible for God.
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it is only impossible for god to lie without being caught... let me know when you catch him... and not just another one of us trying to explain his existence!
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CS Lewis could answer this more eloquently than I am about to: All things are possible to the extent that possibility can exist. For instance - He can't make it cloudy and clear in the same space at the same time. He cannot make you have free will and command your every decision at the same time. Things that are contradictory of themselves on an intrinsic level are truly impossible. God cannot retain His nature as God and lie in the same moment - so, what Paul was saying is that God cannot lie and remain God. He would become a Omnipotent Tyrant and nothing more. I dont know if that makes much sense... but I hope it helps.
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None of them are. Jesus may have been right but I really don't think he knew God existed or not. He simply invented an imaginary concept due to how the Jews had been treated for the past 5,000 years. Same thing unto paul as well.
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Which god does that mean? Do both quotations refer to the same god?
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