He can change his mind. He went from eye for an eye to turn the other cheek.
2007-10-19 04:10:18 · 21 answers · asked by Mister P 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Well, He did give Noah a rainbow, which apparently signified that He wouldn't ever do that again. Or at least not with a flood.
Of course, Jesus said that all the Old Testament covenants were no longer binding - so I don't know if that one's included.
I guess none of us are safe from the bipolar invisible skydude.
2007-10-19 04:15:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
No. God is unchanging. Remember time does not exist. So for God everything happens at exactly the same instant. The "eye for an eye" to "turn the other cheek" thing was God allowing for humanity to mature in their spirituality. in a sense, for God it has always been "turn the other cheek."
Also, God changing His mind implies that he made a mistake in the first place, which is logically impossible.
2007-10-19 11:20:44 · answer #2 · answered by Thom 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God cannot change. Period. He could give up on humans, but since He created everything and daily causes all things to happen according to His plan and design, and since He's already provided the means by which redemption from sin can be obtained, and since both sin and death have been defeated through the sacrifice of His OWN Son, and since He did pay so high a price for man, and all this was His intention the moment He decided to create all this anyway, why would He? You assume that He's not in control of the situation, or that He didn't and/or doesn't know that all this was going to happen when it all got started, and that's your fallacy. God's purpose is to make the FULL MEASURE of His grace known to man, and that can't happen until sin has become absolutely sinful, and gone to most extreme of extremes; at just the right time (when this had been done), Christ died for us, even though we were (and are) directly opposed to Him. He's coming back soon to claim those who have accepted Him, and those who don't and won't will perish.
2007-10-19 11:18:14 · answer #3 · answered by Steve 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, a promise, vow or oath can never be broken, it can only be fulfilled.
God the Father did not change His mind, the eye for an eye was given to us by Moses, and the serpent in the wilderness.
Turn the other cheek was given to us by Jesus Christ, by His Father who art in heaven.
Jesus told you, "Moses gave you not that bread from heaven, but My Father giveth you the TRUE bread from heaven."
John the witness told you "for the law was given by Moses, but Grace and TRUTH came by Jesus Christ.
Jesus was a gentleman, and did not wish to offend others, but I am not, Jesus was calling Moses a liar, a thief and a robber. Moses gave a mouth to the beast, and caused all that would not worship the image of the beast, that he made of the serpent, to be killed.
The day Moses came down from the Mountain of Sin, with the 10 Commandments Moses killed 3000 of his own people in the name of his God, the serpent.
Read Revelation 13:10-18, John 1:17, John 4:20-22, John 6:32, John 10:8, Luke 4:6 and 4:9, Luke 24:25, John 3:14, and Matthew 22:32, why was the Name Moses not included.
2007-10-19 11:34:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
IF you think about it just a little beyond your question, the Bible assures us that there SHALL be an end time. So, God doesn't even have to "change His mind" and "give up" on humans. Our days on this earth were numbered from the beginning!
Given that many Christians believe that the second coming of Christ is near, I find myself wondering sometimes if my children will live long enough to marry and have kids before the end.
2007-10-19 11:26:15 · answer #5 · answered by Just_One_Man's_Opinion 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God doesn't break covenant. God doesn't break His promises. NO - God doesn't give up on His people the believers.
God proved to man that man could not keep the commandments and therefore they needed a Savior from their sins. Without the Holy Spirit within us, we have no hopes of ever keeping the commandments of God.
God doesn't change His mind.
The Old Testament is the New Testament concealed.
The New Testament is the Old Testament revealed.
You must know the entire Bible and not just a few verses.
2007-10-19 11:18:43 · answer #6 · answered by Jeancommunicates 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There are many examples in the Bible of times God changed His mind. At one time, God was going to distroy all off the Jews but Moses prayed and begged God not to do it and God changed His mind.
Here are some other examples:
1Ch 21:15 And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the LORD beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
Jon 3:10 ¶ And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did [it] not.
2007-10-19 11:22:22 · answer #7 · answered by tas211 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To say that God could change his mind about humans would be to agree that we are seperate from God...
Not to mention that God may or may not have changed his mind in the bible, but i think that MAN'S interpretations changed... after all, Man wrote the bible... not God...based on the stories that were passed down verbally from generation to generation....
2007-10-19 11:27:18 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He never went from "an eye for an eye", which is perfect justice. He merely took the consequences of violated justice upon Himself on the cross.
As for the unchangeableness of His purpose with regards to those who put their hope in the promise of the Gospel:
"When God made his promise to Abraham, since there was no one greater for him to swear by, he swore by himself, saying, "I will surely bless you and give you many descendants." And so after waiting patiently, Abraham received what was promised.
Men swear by someone greater than themselves, and the oath confirms what is said and puts an end to all argument. Because God wanted to make the unchanging nature of his purpose very clear to the heirs of what was promised, he confirmed it with an oath. God did this so that, by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope offered to us may be greatly encouraged. We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain, where Jesus, who went before us, has entered on our behalf. He has become a high priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek."
Hebrews 6:13-20
There is nothing in all the universe you can be more certain of than His promise of eternal life through the Gospel.
2007-10-19 11:20:53 · answer #9 · answered by wefmeister 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i agree. the Bible contains many instances of God changing its mind. in fact, the entire ministry of Jesus of Nazareth could be interpreted as God's sensitivity training. Also. look at the book of Jonah. the alternative to apocalypse is tikkun olam (repairing the world) it's our opportunity to turn the wrath of God, like the people of Nineveh.
2007-10-19 11:23:36 · answer #10 · answered by metanoia 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He could but He won't. I KNOW this because He has promised us and He is faithful. Humans can't understand just how faithful He is. Even if He wants to, He has made a covenant with us and will not go back on it
2007-10-19 11:22:12 · answer #11 · answered by christian_me 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋