By Rotich Wilson The knowledge of good and evil is forever fit for God alone. This is simply because when God created man in his own image and likeness, he did not make an exact clone of himself, and neither did he replicate himself. He did not make man with all the powers, characteristics, abilities, and attributes of God. Some of these attributes of God that lack in man are omniscience, omnipotence and omnipresence. These qualities are the ones that God reserved for himself and they are the ones that Satan cheated man to envy. As stated earlier, to be wise in the knowledge of good and evil means to be able to decide independently ones course of life. God excels in this because first, He is omniscient (Psalms 147:5, I John 3:20). He has perfect and eternal knowledge of everything that has been or will ever be. He knows excellent ways of achieving his desired goals. He can make excellent decisions that are free from failure (Job 42:2). In the contrary man has tried many plans but has suffered failures because his knowledge is limited. Secondly, God is omnipotent. He has absolute ability to do whatever he wills. God has the ability to create everything from nothing. The angel Gabriel told Mary that nothing is impossible with God (Luke 1:37). God eventually proved to be omnipotent by enabling the Virgin Mary to conceive and deliver the baby boy Jesus Christ. Even though God has absolute power to do everything that he wills, it is impossible for him to lie (Hebrews 6:18). This does not mean that God is devoid of potency to lie. But it is because God is unchangeable. Whatever he says is true and his promises shall come to pass. In one of the Old Testament Bible stories (I Kings 21:1ff), Naboth refused to give King Ahab his vineyard. As an immediate effect of that, Jezebel, the Kings wicked wife, wrote letters in the Kings name and seal and she sent them to the elders and nobles of Naboths city, instructing them to fast and stone Naboth. She lied that Naboth had cursed both God and King Ahab. Naboth was indeed stoned to death as a result of that lie. God was not pleased with that lie that killed Naboth. Owing to the biblical fact that our God is so just that he does revenge on behalf of the oppressed, He sat on his throne with all the hosts of heaven standing around him on his right and left. He asked this question: Who will entice Ahab into attacking Ramoth Gilead and going to his death there? There were some suggestions from among the hosts of heaven. But God took the suggestions of one spirit who came before the Lord and said that he would entice Ahab by becoming a lying spirit on the mouths of all Ahabs prophets. God gave an assurance of success to that lying spirit. And indeed that spirit accomplished Gods will. This is a stumbling surprise to many average Christians who do not want to hear that God could really put a lying spirit in the mouths of all the prophets of King Ahab. Basing on the above biblical story, it is really true that God uses lying spirits to lie when lying is necessary to accomplish his plans. This is especially necessary when God is punishing or revenging on behalf of his righteous servant or follower. Prophet Habakkuk complained to God because he could not understand why God used a wicked nation to punish the nation of Israel for their sin (Habakkuk 1:12-20). But from Gods long answer, he learnt that God is always so perfect, so just that all the earth should be silent before him. King Ahab killed Naboth by lying and God revenged by killing him through the lying spirit. But at the end of the day, God was not accountable for that lie because it is impossible fro God to lie. It is the lying spirit who took the credit for lying. Therefore God is omnipotent because all his plans do succeed perfectly. He does everything without compromising or contradicting himself. Whatever God does is right, good, and just, just because it is him who has done it. God is perfectly armed with a host of both good and evil spirits whom he sends to accomplish his plans. He sends them to control the affairs of man in this present world. Whenever a man does well, God sends him the Holy Spirit who is mans comforter and counselor (John 15:26). And the same Sovereign God will send an injurious or evil spirit to the person who does detestable deeds. This happened in the life of King Saul and it is recorded that, Now the spirit of the Lord had departed from Saul and an evil spirit from the Lord tormented him (I Samuel 16:14). Note that both the good and evil spirits that came to King Saul were from the Lord. As it is true with all men and women of all generations, when King Saul walked with God he received the Holy Spirit but when he separated himself from God through disobedience then God gave him an injurious spirit that tormented him to death. God is omnipotent in the sense that He has perfect control over all the heavenly and earthly, visible and invisible thrones or powers or rulers or authorities because he created and sustains them all (Colossians 1:16). Everything happens under the leadership and permission of God. Although Satan is powerful and subtle, he is not at all an independent rival of God but he operates under Gods permission (Job 1:12, 2:6, Luke 22;31). No one can be fully independent from God. Even though Satan and sinful men and women are trying to behave as though they can succeed in their plans by living independently from God, then God proves them wrong by making them to come to him for permission and power. For example, when Satan was defeated to destroy the faith of Job, he sought for Gods help and God permitted him to touch the body but not the life of Job. When Satan was unable to destroy the faiths of the eleven apostles of Christ, he asked Gods permission but because Christ knew that Satan was permitted to succeed temporarily, he prayed for Simon Peter so that he could strengthen the other disciples later. Thirdly, God is omnipresent, (Psalms 139:7-12). He is fully present everywhere at the same time and everything is at His immediate presence forever. He never struggles to see whatever happens in the heavens or on the earth. He does not rely on satellites, spacecrafts, telescopes, microscopes, scanning machines, or even the Internet for pieces of information. No object, distance or time can hinder His sight. God sees all eternity at the same time. For several centuries, man has been desperately struggling to become omnipresent. His God-given wisdom has enabled him to invent speeding automobiles, spacecrafts and ships which can enable him to go round and about the earth and other planets within the shortest time possible. Although those machines are sometimes lethal to human lives, man feels better off when he is mobile than when he is confined to one place. At his best, man can run around the world with whatever speed but he cannot be everywhere at the same time. Indeed man can run but he cannot hide from God. Satan also is not omnipresent but he is an active athlete who roams through the earth and goes back and forth as he influences sinful people through his angels. Therefore both Satan and man are not entitled to the knowledge of good and evil because as clearly stated earlier, the independence that accompanies the knowledge of good and evil is dangerous to the existence of any other living being except God alone. Rotich K Wilson P.O. 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