Talk about a good God! According to those verses, it wasn’t Oral Roberts who was giving people the wrong impression about Him, it was the critics! Instead of preaching the Word they were just repeating religious traditions.
They had no idea those traditions were started by the devil, but they were. He does everything he can to stop the Word of God’s goodness from getting out to people. He has spent thousands of years telling lies about the Lord and trying to ruin His reputation.
That’s what he did in the Garden of Eden. He questioned God’s Word and suggested to Eve that God had lied to her and Adam about the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. He told her, in essence, “God isn’t really good. He doesn’t have your best interest at heart.”
It’s amazing Eve didn’t just laugh at that lie. After all, her whole life in the Garden of Eden absolutely overflowed with God’s goodness. She and Adam were perpetually surrounded by it.
She had the perfect husband; he had the perfect wife. They ate perfect food that grew abundantly on perfect trees. The best dressed couple that ever walked the face of the earth, they were clothed in garments of light. The Bible even says they had plenty of gold, “and the gold of that land [was] good” (Genesis 2:12).
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