- Malachi 3:6 "For I am the Lord; I change not."
- Numbers 23:19 "God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent."
- Ezekiel 24:14 "I the Lord have spoken it: it shall come to pass, and I will do it; I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent."
- James 1:17 " ...the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning."
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- Exodus 32:14 "And the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people."
- Genesis 6:6,7 "And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth...And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth... for it repenteth me that I have made him."
- Jonah 3:10 "...and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not."
See also II Kings 20:1-7, Numbers 16:20-35, Numbers 16:44-50.
See Genesis 18:23-33, where Abraham gets God to change his mind about the minimum number of righteous people in Sodom required to avoid destruction, bargaining down from fifty to ten. (An omniscient God must have known that he was playing with Abraham's hopes for mercy--he destroyed the city anyway.)
So does God change His mind?
<> STRONG Yes. (Biblical)
Exodus 32:14 "And the LORD relented from the disaster that he had spoken of bringing on his people."
2 Kings 20:1,5 "...the Lord says: Set your affairs in order, for you are going to die. You will not recover from this illness" and then "Go back to Hezekiah, tell him...I have heard your prayer and seen your tears. I will heal you."
< STRONG It does not mean that God changed His mind but that He embarked on another course of action.
The Hebrew word for "changed His mind" is nacham. It also means "relented." The Hebrew word nacham suggests relief or comfort from a planned, undesirable course of action. God is not inflexible; He responds to individuals’ needs, attitudes, and actions."
- http://www.carm.org/religious-movements/open-theism/jeremiah-2619-lord-changed-his-mind
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