For the one who is loving and practising falsehood (Rev. 22.15), it is impossible that s/he can have any regard for the God of truth (Ps. 31.5b [alétheias, Ps. 30.6b LXX]); his word, which is truth (Jn 17.17); his Son, who is the Truth (Jn 14.6a); or the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth (Jn 14.17; 15.26; 16.13). Therefore, it is yet another lie whenever a lover of falsehood claims to love the God of truth whom, in reality, s/he despises. It is a flagrant untruth when those who practise falsehood claim to be in a justified state before the God who has by no means acquitted them of their lawless works.
Persons who, without a conscience, live, eat, breathe, and sleep lies, have been handed over by God to their love of falsehood. It is only a matter of time before lovers and practitioners of deception shall eat the fruit of their evil ways (Prov. 1.31). They will not turn from their mendacity; their minds are not fit to receive the truth or the love of it (2 Thess. 2.10–12). Their lifelong disregard for the truth is but a manifestation of their disdain for God.
We can be certain that the inheritance of all liars shall be, as may be read in the Apocalypse, the lake burning with fire and sulphur, the second death (Rev. 21.8).[1]
Note
1. The nature of which, incidentally, I am inclined to understand as entailing the actual end (i.e. annihilation) of evildoers rather than their preservation and perpetuation in misery, wherein they are to everlastingly exist in a pocket somewhere outside (or alongside) God’s new creation.
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