based upon the Holy Scriptures?
can God REALLY repent/Change His Mind?
Discussion in 'Baptist Theology & Bible Study' started by JesusFan, Oct 18, 2011.
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InTheLight Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
If you believe that God changes His mind, then yes, He does.
If you don't believe that God changes His mind, then no, He doesn't. -
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InTheLight Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
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Iconoclast Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
He does not need to ...ever:thumbsup:
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Gen. 6:6-7 -- This (along with another, 1 Sam 15:11, regarding God "repenting" over the choice of Saul) is the primary hinge point of the Skeptical argument alleging contradiction. But let's look at that word "repent" more closely. It is nacham, and it means to be sorry, grieve, or to pity.
Now here is a question: Is it not possible to grieve and feel sorry over something -- even if we know that it is going to happen, even if we cause it to happen? -
God does not change. But He can change His plans (repent). How many times did God withhold judgment if Israel returned to Him after times of rebellion even though God told them He would destroy them?
Nothing surprises God, but in His sovereignty, He can change the course of things if He so desires. -
Numbers 23:19 "God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind."
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Its baffling there are those who will deny God's own words where he says he repented, relented, etc. Of course God doesn't change, or change his mind as we do...he's not human!
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I read an interesting article by a pastor once that explained how God could repent or be sorry for making man in Genesis 6. He said (and I agree) that many cannot grasp this. It concerns God's foreknowledge. I don't know if I completely agree with it, but it does make sense.
He said that foreknowledge means to have knowledge of some event or person before time, but that event had to happen in time for God to know it.
In other words, God allowed man free will and knew men would corrupt himself, however, he had to allow man to corrupt himself to have foreknowledge of it. If man did not corrupt himself, then God could not have foreknowledge of something that did not occur.
Confused?
God foreknew man would corrupt himself, only because it actually happened. Therefore he could repent that he made man and destroy the world with Noah's flood.
This will be confusing to some, but it is actually quite logical. -
InTheLight Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
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Relent
God plan doesn't change, everything is happening for the good of those who love Him. In the end He will relent the wrath against all those in Christ. He will not have Christ again to pay our debt. God does not change His mind all those in Christ will be saved. -
Iconoclast Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
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Iconoclast Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
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Iconoclast Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
It depends on the word only...not what you believe. -
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He would know you were tempted to steal candy, because that happened under this view. But temptation is not sin. -
Just NOT Biblical!Click to expand...
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