The World According to Cara

Saturday, July 28, 2007

is God perfect?

If God is perfect why did He change His mind?

So the Lord changed his mind about the terrible disaster he had threatened to bring on his people. Exodus 32.14

posted by Cara at 10:12 PM

5 Comments:

  • If God is all knowing, and being all knowing - He knew He would change his mind. Did He then really change his mind??

    By Blogger switch, at 1:12 AM  

  • what's so imperfect about that.

    You're making my head hurt!

    By Blogger Achi Myachi, at 2:58 AM  

  • In my opinion, it's not really changing his mind per se, but responding to the actions of the Israelites (who were the ones changing their minds). God set out conditions in the beginning; do this and live, do that and die. When the people finally change their minds and turn from their sin, God switches back to option A (which He always knew he would). If the people had not changed their minds, God would not have 'changed his' either. It wasn't like God made a mistake in deciding what he was going to do, and then thought better of it. It was perfect holiness and righteousness, I think.

    By Blogger Steff, at 4:26 PM  

  • hmm steff, i like that. thanks

    By Blogger Cara, at 9:55 PM  

  • So perhaps it could be put: God had mercy on them.

    By Blogger Trav, at 5:30 AM  

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