is it Possible For God to "repent/Change His Mind?"

I read something a long time ago which may help your point. It is that all emotions exist in God at the same time. So we move from God's approval to his anger when we displease him. He hasn't changed, we have. So the people of Genesis 6 moved from God's approval to his disapproval, and thus his determination to destroy the earth with a flood.

God is always pleased by obedience and displeased with disobedience. He is always pleased with righteous living, and displeased with unrighteousness.

In the same way, the sun melts butter but hardens clay. The sun doesn't change.

So when we use such words as change, relent, repent, etc., it helps our understanding of God's immutability and his reactions to sin and obedience.

 

There are no "mysteries" that plauge my faith. The bible has done a good job of giving us solid revelation and can be and is defended against all attacks.

That's silly. That's like saying that there is no reason to evangelize. We evangelize and defend the faith because it deserves to be evangelized and defended. Also God is logical and the gospel is logical and God has chosen to regenerate people when they are exposed to the gospel.

Reformed theology is purely biblical. We get all doctrines from exegeting the bible using the historical grammatical hermeneutic observing the law of non contradiction. So, it's all bible all the time everywhere.

 

No, there is a difference. Calvinists say they evangelize because they are told to do so by God and for his glory and for the purpose of fulfulling the commission for the elect. But scripture never commands you to defeat the notions of atheistic thinkers...it just tells you to preach the gospel and let the Lord do the rest.

 

God can limit His knowledge, but then He wouldn't be God! God looks at all of history as we would a book, seeing every action at one time. He is out of time, yet in time. Today is Monday for God, but He is also out of time.

This notion that God is not immutable must be squashed at once. God can never change, there is "No shadow of turning" with God. God "Does not repent".

There are anthromophisms that are used througout scripture, and they seem to appear God "Repenting", but rest assured that every action, including this letter is decreed by God, either through direct operation or through direct withdrawel.

 

Thanks for making it so simple and crystal clear.