“An affirmative one.” She looked down at her desk, where Laura’s essay was spread out in front of her. “She cites – it’s right here – First Kings, chapter twenty-two – the passage in which God deceives King Ahab. ‘Now therefore, behold, the Lord hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets.’ Laura goes on to say that if God did this once, how do we know he didn’t do it more than once, and how can we tell the false prophecies apart from the true ones?”
