There is a place where it is written, “Hereby know we the spirit of truth and the spirit of error”. An intentional error is a lie. We are able to distinguish between the truth and the lie only when one is established as immutable. Otherwise it is an opinion. Opinions can be influenced and changed. I like the analogy that equates opinions to armpits. Everyone has a couple of them and sometimes they stink.
Immutable means without possibility of change. That is God’s perspective. The scriptures says that He never changes. He is the same yesterday, today and forever. So what He says can be known as truth. His perspective is the proper and correct way to view anything.
Another perspective, a differing viewpoint would be as Paul wrote a different gospel, “Not a gospel”. Eve had a God perspective which was truth from God but only an opinion for Eve. When she was influenced by another (the father of lies), she allowed her perspective to be a lie.
It was not a lie because someone suggested it. Nor was it a lie because she considered that it might be an acceptable perspective. It was a lie because it contradicted God’s perspective.
Fanaticism is being in the extreme. It is viewed as being so far from the balance as to cause anything on the other side of balance to appear as the antithesis of right. Fanatics lie. They are fanciers of anything other than the balance. Balance is the result of intent and purpose realized in creation. It is not that God’s perspective is on the far right or the far left or any other direction up, down, or otherwise. He is the center of all.
All things consist by the power of His will. According to the good pleasure of His will within Himself He created all that is with balance. A lie is out of balance. It declares many more things than can be listed although a few of them are that God is not a good God; He cannot or does not provide; He will not allow; He does not share; He cannot be trusted. And many, many more.
If He is who and what He says He is, then all of these declarations are lies. He is who He is and they are, lies. If He is, and He IS, then the closer to the center we are, the truer and more balanced our existence is. Without balance we wobble, we suffer uncomfortable external forces and fail to maintain a footing in reality.
This is what has happened in God’s greatest creation. We have wobbled out of His balance under the weight and perspective of the lie. It is of course only one lie. No matter how many diverse ways we repeat and promote it. It is only one lie. Every untruth we speak, every evidence of our ‘out of balance’ existence stems from the one lie.
We lie because we deemed it possible that the one true perspective might not be. It might not be the only one. It might not be true. It might not be a perspective at all, but only an opinion. It might just be someones extreme view. We remove God from the center, from being the balance and declare Him a fanatic.
After all, His ways are not our ways. His thoughts are not our thoughts. Yet we find without exception that His word accomplishes what it was sent out for. So, if we are wise, we seek to find balance again.
Not because we have such great insight within ourselves but rather because He inundates us with the presence of His Holy Spirit in such a way that any cognitive comparison with our reality allows us to know we are out of balance. We seek restoration to balance. He has already provided it. And that is not a lie.
HE is it.