Does God Change?, Exodus 32:14, Jeremiah 18:8-10

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Whenever you ask whether God changes or that God learns, It is usually met with a resounding "No!" But then you must ask, what is the point of prayer? When you look at scripture, it says explicitly many times that God changes. "But God knows everything" goes the reasoning. So most people have to do logical backflips to make omniscience work with free will and change. So did God make a giant mistake? Why does God keep making new agreements, Covenants with His people? There a several schools of thought on this and we must wade through millennia of dogma to have this make sense. We have already determined that God can't predetermine the future. So then, does God know all possible outcomes? I offer several ways to think about it differently. As Richard Rohr says, Creation is ongoing. God is never done creating. Creation is change and relationship is with Creation is God's main goal in scripture. So yes, it is irrefutable that God changes.

Reference: "The Universal Christ" by Richard Rohr

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