13:1 Titus 3:1 1 Peter 2:13), but there are many examples of justified civil disobedience when the government attempts to compel unrighteousness ( Ex.

The Bible commands obedience to the government ( Rom. Certainly a person cannot be held responsible for not keeping a lesser law in order to keep a higher obligation. If so, God would not hold Rahab responsible for this unavoidable moral conflict. It may have been impossible for her to both save the spies and tell the truth to the soldiers of the king. Others insist that Rahab was faced with a real moral conflict. She firmly believed that God would destroy Jericho, and she exhibited that belief by siding with Israel against the people of Jericho when she protected the spies from being discovered. Actually, Rahab’s act of protecting the spies was a demonstration of great faith in the God of Israel. God could have blessed her in spite of her lie, not because of it. However, nowhere does the Bible explicitly say that God blessed Rahab for lying. God certainly saved Rahab and blessed her for protecting the spies and assisting in the overthrow of Jericho. Solution: Some argue that it is not clear that God blessed Rahab for lying.

However, when Israel finally destroyed Jericho, Rahab and all her family were saved alive. When the king of Jericho commanded Rahab to bring out the men, she lied saying that the men had already gone and that she did not know where they went. Problem: When the spies came to Jericho, they sought refuge in the house of Rahab. Joshua 2:4–5 -How could God bless Rahab for lying?

The Gospel of Lie by Joshua Lie