February 2, 2013 – 1 Kings 13

I am having a hard time understanding the prophet that goes out and lies to the man of God. Was he sent out there solely to test the man of God. It appears that way because of his actions afterward, he obviously didn’t do it because of malice or hatred for the man. It is sometimes very confusing trying to know who is speaking the Word of God and who is lying. The man of God obviously believed the prophet because he said God had told him, but he was to rely on what God had already told him. This could be seen as a lesson in the Truth of God and God’s teachings. God told the man not to do something. He knew that and turned down the king’s offer for a meal. But when he hears someone else say that God has said something different, he should have questioned it. God cannot be contradictory. He was either not to eat or he could eat, he could not do both. God’s command was to not eat, that should have ended all debate.

When you go to Church and you hear that two contradictory things can be true, it should raise alarms, as it should have with the man of God. Two opposites cannot be true, it simply does not work that way. God cannot function as God if He teaches two contradictory things can both be true. Jesus is God, or He is not. Abortion is wrong, or it is not. Divorce is wrong, or it is not. There is no middle ground with God because Truth has no middle ground. That is what is so unnerving about this movement of moral relativism. The idea that whatever you think is right is right falls apart as soon as you encounter someone that has a different view. The idea that there is not Truth falls apart as soon as you realize they believe that statement is true. There is Truth in the world, God gives us that Truth, and just like the man of God, when we find out the Truth, we need to stick with it. When someone challenges us about what we believe to be Truth, do not brush it off and say that they could be right as well. Two contradictions cannot both be True.