Subject: Is God subject to change? |
Bible Note: Dear Tim, I wish you would drop the arguement that you are correct, and to take a different position one must accept that God is a liar. There are other alternatives! We cannot focus on a single passage to the exclusion of other related passages. You said that God intended to something (overthrow the ninivites), but changed what He had intended to do on the basis ot the ninivites repentance. What does this conclusion imply about His attributes? Surely, you do not mean to imply that God did not know that the ninivites would repent. For that would impugn His omniscience and call into question verses such as ACT 15:18 "Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world". The only way to harmonize these passages is by recognizing that God's plan from the beginning was to grant repentance to this nation, and, that by telling them that they would be overthrown in 40 days was the means by which they were brought to seek repentance. Did God lie to the ninivites in telling them that they would be overthrown in 40 days, when He knew that they would repent as a result of His proclamation? A thousand times NO! "God is not a man that He should lie". Therefore, we must take His proclamation, not as a prophecy, but, a warning! This is consistant the truth of God's immutability, omniscience, omnipotence, justice and mercy. John |