I wouldn't normally share from this site,let alone twice. But it has opened some interesting discussions. I,of course,disagree with the author. But he says a perfect God cannot relate to man. Your thoughts?
Why a Perfect God Can Only Lead to Atheism
I agree with the author. A lot of these dilemmas are linguistic rather than conceptual.
Immutable - unchanging
My picture of God from scripture and in my heart is he is consistent.
His desire in relationship is to create infinite diversity and exploration of the possible.
Look at creation around us. It is all about adapting to changing circumstance to bring
about life and variety. To be unchanging is to be dead. The absence of life is immutable.
So immutable in terms of God means he always loves, is always faithful, always righteous,
always perfect and true. How this is expressed changes and the different ways you can
view things are balanced out.
For instance God wants to destroy Israel, and make a nation out of Moses, but Moses
reminds the Lord of His promises and commitment to bring about a nation of His choosing
out of this people, and though they are failures and sinners, still His purposes can be
fulfilled through them. And the Lord brings judgement but also brings his purposes about
through those faithful to Him.
So this ex-pastor is right that immutable in the extreme interpretation denies God and His
nature, used in a biblical context it describes Gods nature as totally consistent.
I do wonder at these definition criticisms, they are just so shallow.