Does God repent?

[nommo]

Numbers 23:19:

[19] God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent.

I Samuel 15:29:

[29] And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent.

Genesis 6:6:

[6] And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

Exodus 32:14:

[14] And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.

I guess God can't be omniscient then.

 

[Brennin]

Does God repent?

No. Next question.

 

[nommo]

Does God repent?

No. Next question.

I just got an email from a moderator/admin who told me that I was not allowed to say a thing like 'Christians refuse to read, refuse to think.'

Isn't that ironic?

P.S.

It would be a good things if you became a Wielder of the Holy Cudgel of Truth, instead of Faith. Believe me.

 

[Brennin]

I just got an email from a moderator/admin who told me that I was not allowed to say a thing like 'Christians refuse to read, refuse to think.'

Isn't that ironic?

P.S.

It would be a good things if you became a Wielder of the Holy Cudgel of Truth, instead of Faith. Believe me.

You can quote the Hebrew Scriptures until you are blue in the face; this is Christian Forums, not Judaic, Mosaic, or Hebraic Forums.

 

[nommo]

You can quote the Hebrew Scriptures until you are blue in the face; this is Christian Forums, not Judaic, Mosaic, or Hebraic Forums.

You mean the God of the Old Testament is not the same as the one in the New Testament?

 

[Brennin]

You mean the God of the Old Testament is not the same as the one in the New Testament?

The Old Testament conception of God is flawed, that is what I am saying. That is why Jesus repudiates several Mosaic laws in the Sermon on the Mount. Also, Jesus says (in John 10), "All who came before me were thieves and robbers," which is hardly an endorsement of the sort of OT scriptures you like to toss about.

 

[peter22]

So the Word Of God, the Bible is MOSTLY ignored, i.e., the OT? How can you justify that? I've heard endlessly that the Bible is the infallible Word of God...except most of it. Sorry, NO! Your Lord Jesus Himself commands you to follow the Old Testament to the very letter!

Please read the words of Jesus:

"It is easier for Heaven and Earth to pass away than for the smallest part of the letter of the law to become invalid." (Luke 16:17 NAB)

“For truly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass the law until all is accomplished. Whoever then relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but he who does them and teaches them shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.” (Matthew 5:18-19 RSV)

Clearly the Old Testament is to be abided by until the end of human existence itself. None other then Jesus said so.

"Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfill. Amen, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest part or the smallest part of a letter will pass from the law, until all things have taken place." (Matthew 5:17 NAB)

Don't you dare say that these quotes were taken out of context either, unless you wish to question the word of Jesus Christ the Saviour. His commands could not be clearer.

 

[kevin36]

I just got an email from a moderator/admin who told me that I was not allowed to say a thing like 'Christians refuse to read, refuse to think.'

Isn't that ironic?

P.S.

It would be a good things if you became a Wielder of the Holy Cudgel of Truth, instead of Faith. Believe me.

It's interesting in that you were instructed no to do it, yet here you are doing it again in such an innocent manner.

I am a Christian, and I can both read and think very well. Part of those skills involve my being able to both read and understand what I have read, without twisting the meaning of what I have read, or imposing my own views on what I have read for any specific purpose.

The quote that you made stated that God did not HAVE to repent- the word "should". It did not at all say that God did NOT repent.

God is righteous- He is totally without sin, and is even incapable of having sin in His presence. There is no need for Him therefor to repent, as there is no unrighteousness for Him to repent of. It's impossible by His very nature.

People ARE sinful, and it would be completely within God's right to destroy us utterly. We deserve no less. However, through His grace and mercy He has not done so. He does however get angry with us from time to time, and has often stayed that anger instead of lashing out or carrying through with it. His anger is righteous, and appropriate, but he has repented of it in certain situations, and not punnished us as is His right.

Thank you for bringing up the subject.

God Bless

 

[The Gregorian]

A: The "God repented of the evil" is a different use of the word. To repent normally means to beg for forgiveness. What? Was God begging the evil for forgiveness? The usage of the term, here, seems to mean a revoking, rebuking, rebutting, suspending, abjuring, etc.

... The same word being used proves nothing except the fact that our english language is gimp.

I just got an email from a moderator/admin who told me that I was not allowed to say a thing like 'Christians refuse to read, refuse to think.'

Isn't that ironic?

P.S.

It would be a good things if you became a Wielder of the Holy Cudgel of Truth, instead of Faith. Believe me.

Maybe you should try... you know... actually debating a christian willing to debate you instead of seeing one closed-minded fundamentalist bible thumper and assuming that's the best "our kind" has to offer.

Are evolutionists nothing but blind, conformist pigs, who despiritely grasp on to flawed fragments of fraudulant evidance, they know to have been disproven decades back, yet still lay lame claim to an imagined intellectual superiority?

Not all of 'em.

Point is: Closed-minded insults are gimp.

/pwnd.

 

[nommo]

The Old Testament conception of God is flawed, that is what I am saying.

That's not what Jesus is saying.

[17] Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
[18] For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

Matthew 5

 

[nommo]

It's interesting in that you were instructed no to do it, yet here you are doing it again in such an innocent manner.

That's because I don't agree with his instruction. If members of this Forum clearly refuse to think and read in a certain thread, then I will point that out.

I am a Christian, and I can both read and think very well.

All Christians can. But the question is whether they always do.

God is righteous-

He is a tyrant. Just do your reading.

He is totally without sin, and is even incapable of having sin in His presence.

He even tells people to organize genocide.

There is no need for Him therefor to repent, as there is no unrighteousness for Him to repent of. It's impossible by His very nature.

The scriptures say he repents. [I was not allowed to say Christans are in coma, but one has to be in a frightful coma to simply say that 'there is no need for him to repent' if the scriptures say he did repent.]

People ARE sinful, and it would be completely within God's right to destroy us utterly.

There is perversity in these words. I'm sorry, but there is.

We deserve no less. However, through His grace and mercy He has not done so. He does however get angry with us from time to time, and has often stayed that anger instead of lashing out or carrying through with it. His anger is righteous, and appropriate, but he has repented of it in certain situations, and not punnished us as is His right.

And then they complain what sects do to people.

Thank you for bringing up the subject.

God Bless

I'm sorry, but you scare me. Don't know how to put that more elegantly.

 

[nommo]

Maybe you should try... you know... actually debating a christian willing to debate you instead of seeing one closed-minded fundamentalist bible thumper and assuming that's the best "our kind" has to offer.

I know that kind. It doesn't stay christian very long. Has to do with honesty.

Are evolutionists nothing but blind, conformist pigs, who despiritely grasp on to flawed fragments of fraudulant evidance, they know to have been disproven decades back, yet still lay lame claim to an imagined intellectual superiority?

Not all of 'em.

Not all of 'em are pigs? But most of them. Or at least some of them.

 

[levi501]

If he is anything like the god of the OT then he should.

 

[MelissaShae]

Christians repent to God so then who would God repent to? Based on your question/comment you are stating that God will repent to himself.......doesn't make much sense.

 

[levi501]

Christians repent to God so then who would God repent to? Based on your question/comment you are stating that God will repent to himself.......doesn't make much sense.

It would make more sense if you understood the deffinition of repent.

 

[MelissaShae]

well then please by all means explain it to me.......because this is the definition that I believe it to be but I am sure that it is not nearly the one that fits your sarcastic tone or attitude

turn away from sin or do penitence


so back to my original question, who would God repent to? He is sinless and without flaw........he does not have to repent.

 

[k]

Summer and fishing are so the next time i drive by a huge bait shop i will think of this thread. God is not an agent subject to anthropomorphism nor is God subject to finite human extrapolations.

 

[Pepperoni]

Summer and fishing are so the next time i drive by a huge bait shop i will think of this thread. God is not an agent subject to anthropomorphism nor is God subject to finite human extrapolations.

Amen to that one.

Didn't get your summer and fishing analogies though . . .

 

[k]

Bait shops usually are only open during the fishing season. But on CF they are open year round! Lol I have heard of ice fishing but havent felt that since my ex left.

 

[Pepperoni]

Bait shops usually are only open during the fishing season. But on CF they are open year round! Lol I have heard of ice fishing but havent felt that since my ex left.

LOL! I'm dyin' here!!