Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 02049 Several passages in the Old Testament appear, on first reading, to describe God changing His mind. Genesis 6:6 states that “the LORD regretted that he had made man on the earth.” Exodus 32:14 records that “the LORD relented from the disaster that he had spoken of bringing on his people.” Jonah 3:10 notes…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 2070 Genesis 6:6 records that “the LORD regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.” Jonah 3:10 states that “when God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them,…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 2073 The question touches something every thoughtful believer wrestles with. If God knows the end from the beginning and his purposes are fixed, what does prayer actually accomplish? And if he already knows what we are going to ask, and has already decided how he will respond, does the whole exercise amount to little…