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1 | How can God regret something He did? | Amos 1:1 | mcregge | 130238 | ||
From I Samuel 15:11 and I Samuel 15:35, we learn that God regretted making Saul king. My friend and I were studying this text and were puzzled at this. Specifically, regret is a word used to describe the remorse that results from making a mistake. This runs afoul of our general belief that God is omniscient and does not make mistakes. Could it be that the English translation of the original language doesn't translate well? Or is this just one of those "hard passages" that we will have to inquire about from God face-to-face? Any thoughts? | ||||||
2 | How can God regret something He did? | Amos 1:1 | Ray | 130305 | ||
Hi mcregge, Welcome to the forum. This subject has been considered on the forum before so I would suggest a search be done. 1 Samuel 15:29, "And also the *Glory of Israel will not lie or change His mind; for He is not a man that He should change His mind." Numbers 23:19, "God is not a man, that *He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent;" I would say that God tore the kingdom from Saul not because He changed His mind, but rather because of the things that Saul himself did. He regretted that Saul rejected His word. Jeremiah 4:28, "...because I have spoken, I have purposed, And I will not change My mind, nor will I turn from it." Balaam says in Numbers 23:26, "Did I not tell you, 'Whatever the (Lord) speaks, that I must do?'" Saul, however, did not keep what the Lord commanded him. 1 Samuel 13:14, "But now your kingdom shall not endure. The Lord has sought out for Himself a man after His own heart, and the Lord has appointed him as ruler over His people, because you have not kept what the (Lord) commanded you." The problem is not that God changed His mind, but that Saul rejected His word. Consider the "you have" and "they have" occurances in 1 Samuel. 1 Samuel 15:26, "But Samuel said to Saul, "I will not return with you; for YOU HAVE rejected the word of the (Lord), and the Lord has rejected you from being king over Israel." 1 Samuel 13:14, "...because YOU HAVE NOT kept what the (Lord) has commanded you." 1 Samuel 8:6, "But the thing was displeasing in the sight of Samuel when they said, "Give us a king to judge us." And Samuel prayed to the Lord. 7 And the Lord said to Samuel, "Listen to the voice of the people in regard to all that they say to you, for THEY HAVE NOT rejected you, but THEY HAVE rejected Me from being king over them. 8 Like all the deed which THEY HAVE DONE since the day that I brought them up from Egypt even to this day--in that THEY HAVE forsaken (Me) and served other gods--so they are doing to you also." So don't be concerned that God will make any mistakes. Don't be concerned that He will not do what He has promised. Don't be concerned about His being unfaithful. What we need to do is follow Him and do what He says. Consider 1 Samuel 15:23, "For rebellion is as the sin of divination, And insubordination is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, He has also rejected you from being king." The bottom line is that obedience is better than sacrifice. From the heart, Ray |
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