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Hi there, many others like you have asked, what does it mean that God is truth? Let's find out, shall we?

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You can also discover more on GotQuestions .org. Any statement beginning with the words,

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God is, indicates that it is an attribute of God's being. The attributes of God are typically categorized into two groups, with the first being non -moral attributes, and the second being moral attributes, one of which is truth.

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The statement, God is truth, speaks of God's morality. To say that God is truth is to acknowledge that truth itself proceeds from the nature of God.

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While many things can have the truth, only one thing can be the truth, with that one thing being

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God himself. Scripture refers to this fact about God directly in a number of places.

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For example, Jesus said, I am the way and the truth and the life, and he called the

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Holy Spirit the spirit of truth. A more indirect affirmation that God is truth is found in Hebrews 6 .18,

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which says that it is impossible for God to lie. The Hebrew term for truth means truth, firm, stable, and faithful.

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The Greek word for truth denotes being truthful or upright or having nothing to hide.

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From these terms, and from other attributes of God that support his truthfulness, such as his immutability, infinity, and simplicity, we understand that God himself is absolute truth, and that truth will never change and can always be relied upon.

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Lastly, one often overlooked aspect of truth in the Scriptures that applies to God is the synonymous relationships between righteousness and truth and between unrighteousness and falsehood.

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Paul refers to people who do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, and highlights the equality of unrighteousness and lies and righteousness and truth in Romans 3.

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From this, we learn that God's moral attribute of truth is also tied to his attribute of holiness.

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That answers your question, what does it mean that God is truth? On our website, GotQuestions .org,

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