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Originally Posted by boxcar
Since God is immutable he cannot change.
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You do not understand the Biblical concept of "God does not change". It is referring to the
essence of God, not parameters of what God can and cannot do. The essence of God is pure and divine love and thank God that never changes.
As far as what God purportedly does in the Bible, he certainly changes his mind a lot. Far from "immutable". For example:
Exodus 32:14 And the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.
Samuel 2:30 “Therefore the Lord, the God of Israel, declares: ‘I promised that members of your family would minister before me forever.’ But now the Lord declares: ‘Far be it from me! Those who honor me I will honor, but those who despise me will be disdained.
1 Chronicles 21:15 And God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem. But as the angel was doing so, the Lord saw it and relented concerning the disaster and said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand.”
Amos 7:4-6 This is what the Sovereign Lord showed me: The Sovereign Lord was calling for judgment by fire; it dried up the great deep and devoured the land. 5 Then I cried out, “Sovereign Lord, I beg you, stop! How can Jacob survive? He is so small!”
6 So the Lord relented.
And on and on.
