Sunday 5 June 2011

Why did God keep changing his mind in the bible, surely an all powerful god would be more decisive?

Ezekiel 4:12-15 God tells Ezekiel to cook his bread over human excrement as part of a prophecy of the Hebrew exile. When Ezekiel protests that he has never been defiled, God allows him to use cow dung instead.


Several times in Exodus. Generally God getting fed up with the Israelites and threatens to destroy them. Moses usually intercedes. God changes his mind.


|||Ut Oh, if god changes his mind doesn%26#039;t that mean he is not infallible? Doesn%26#039;t that mean he made a mistake and corrected it?





What about when god repents the evil he has done, which he does several times in the Bible. Doesn%26#039;t that mean he made mistakes?





I know logic escapes Xians but this means god screws up. Which means he is not perfect.|||In Exodus, He repents (changes His mind) about His people and what to do. That is showing how much He loves His people.





About Ezekiel, maybe God was wanting him to say that he has never been defiled. Who knows what God was thinking? Are we able to know what God is thinking?


|||because of his love for his people. he is not a dictator, he is a friend. it should be comforting to know that he actually listens to us and cares about our opinion about things.|||He is caring and that%26#039;s weakness to a business/political man


people would reject them





So you got know that people are more scrutinizing than God|||The Old Testament is not the original sciptures you don%26#039;t understand that even Yahweh God fortold of his works becoming currupted just read Jeremiah 8:8.|||God has repeatedly changed His will to our consideration. He did so for Hezekiah, for Moses, for David.





An all powerful God would be more decisive, but a merciful God would be considerate. A perfect God is both|||have you ever bartered with someone at a grage sale? you know what you are going to pay. you dont %26#039;change your mind%26#039; when you barter a price, you just dicsuss it till things change. either way you got what you wanted, they got what they wanted...|||He can do whatever He wants, He%26#039;s God!|||God has two faces ,often described as a male and a female sides to him/her.





so he has an angry ,judging ,fatherly side who wants to punish the brats that follow him but also she has a feminine compassionate and forgiving side.|||Guess He%26#039;s just not the cosmic tyrant some people think He is, huh?|||God NEVER changes His Mind.





Read the entire context and you%26#039;ll not have problems !








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that %26quot;God%26quot; your saying is weak at making concrete and foolproof decisions





or





he%26#039;s God and enjoys doing what he wants to do, and tells you that you don%26#039;t have the right to question him because he%26#039;s God