Is God evolving?

Question

I'm hoping that some Deits have some intelligent theories on this one... but all ideas are, of course, welcome.

uh... deists... not deits. LOL....

Answer 1

Some things to understand about the attributes of God related to your question:

Simplicity (Indivisibility)

Since God is not composed in his Being, but is Pure Existence, Pure Actuality with no potentiality; it follows that he is simple and indivisible. A Being that by nature is not composed cannot be decomposed. One that has no parts cannot be torn apart. Hence, God has absolute simplicity with no possibility of being divided. He is literally indivisible.

Likewise, a God of Pure Actuality with no potentiality cannot be divided. For if it were divisible, then it would have to have the potential to be divided. But Pure Actuality has no potentiality in its Being whatsoever. Hence, it must be absolutely simple or indivisible.

God’s indivisibility follows also from his immutability (see below). For if God could be divided, he could change. But God is unchangeable by nature. Thus he cannot be divided. He must be absolutely simple in his nature.

Immutability (Unchangeability)

Here are three basic arguments in favor of God’s unchangeability. The first argument is passed on the fact that a God of Pure Actuality (“I-Am-ness”) has no potentiality. It follows, therefore, that God cannot change (Exod. 3:14). Whatever changes has to have the potential to change. But as pure Actuality, God has no potential, so he cannot change.

The second argument for God’s immutability follows from his simplicity. Everything that changes is composed of what changes and what does not change. God cannot change because an absolutely simple being has no composition. If everything about a being changed, then it would be an entirely new being. In fact, it would not be change but annihilation of one thing and a creation of something entirely new. Now if, in every change in a being something remains the same and something does not, then it must be composed of these two elements. So an absolutely simple Being with no composition cannot change.

The third argument for Gods unchangeability argues from his absolute perfection. Whatever changes acquires something new. But God cannot acquire anything new, since he could not be better or more complete. Therefore, God cannot change. If he did, he would not be God for he would have lacked some perfection.

Only God alone is immutable. All creatures exist only because of the will of the Creator. His power brought them into existence, and it is his power that keeps them in existence. Therefore, if he withdrew his power they would cease to exist. Whatever can cease to exist is not immutable. Therefore, God alone is immutable; everything else could cease to exist.

Impassability (without Passions)

A long-recognized attribute of God that has recently come under attack is impassability. God is without passions. Passion implies desire for what one does not have. But God, as an absolutely perfect Being, lacks nothing. To lack something he would have to have a potentiality to have it. But God is Pure Actuality with no potentiality whatsoever. Therefore, God is completely and infinitely satisfied in his own perfection.

However, to say that God is impassable in the sense that he has no passions or cravings for fulfillment is not to say that he has no feelings. God feels anger at sin and rejoices in righteousness. But God’s feelings are unchanging. He always, unchangingly, feels the same sense of anger at sin. He never ceases to rejoice in goodness and lightness. Thus, God has no changing passions, but he does have unchanging feelings.

The above is sufficient reason to logically conclude that God does not evolve, nor does God need to evolve.

Answer 2

As other deists have stated in Hebrews 13:8 "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever."
He changes not. But that does not mean God has not ministered differently to man at different stages of man's historical, intellectual, and social developement through time.

Human nature has remained the same since God created him. God holds man accountable for his own personal actions not just against man, but himself, to God's creation, and to God himself.

In religous history God was the creator to both Adam and Eve the first parents so man has always been aware of God's existence and are without excuse. When man disobeyed God man needed a saviour to reconcile man back to God.

From that time to Abraham would come to the promised people who would have the promised messiah that would save mankind. Then after Abraham;Moses wrote the covenant and the 10 commandments. The only way to reconcile man to God was the anmal sacrifice's and done by the holy priests. This was the ritual for the forgiveness of sins for man kind and to reconcile man to God. After Moses to Jesus Christ he was the promised messiah. Only the sacrafice for sin by the shedding of his blood to redeem all mankind of thier sins before God. His sacrfice for sin was not just for the nation of Israel but for the entire world. That was what the Old and New Testatment is all about.

Now as far as people who never heard of the Jews or thier God or even the Christian God still the knowledge of God has been passed dwon from generation to generation remember ever since Adam and Eve. And however they lived their lieves in accordance to their belief system God will honor that and their faith accordingly.

Where God has never changed is his holiness and goodness and love and his mercy and kindness toward man. Man's attitude to man is the bigger change. Not the other way around.

Answer 3

That's not possible according to the standard definition of "God".

God is perfect, therefore unchanging. What you observe changing is our understanding of the nature of God. God had it right from the beginning. It's we whose comprehension is developing, rejecting old models for better ones, on our way to perfect knowledge.

Prophets are careful enough to remind us of the transcendence of God and our incapacity to truly get it. "My ways are not your ways", etc. Otherwise we would have to admit that God is imperfect and capable of learning, an odious notion for orthodox theologians. (There are some existentialists who would disagree.)

I suspect that Deists would support the "perfect" God model, because intervention would seem to be a natural consequence of divine evolution. The conventional Deist idea is that, once made, the universe needs no tweaking.

Answer 4

No. Jehovah God is unchanging. However our understanding of Him does and should change and become clearer as the end gets closer. Proverbs 4:18 says, " But the path of the righteous ones is like the bright light that is getting lighter and lighter until the day is firmly established."

Answer 5

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Answer 6

No. God is the same yesterday, today and forever. He is never-changing, like the Evergreen.

Answer 7

no but religion does, the religions that are better at keeping and making converts replace the ones that aren't, it's similar to natural selection

Answer 8

God and Jesus are the same yesterday, today and forever.