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No. It can't be anymore plain. He said he would destroy Nineveh. Nineveh turned. God changed his mind and didn't. If he didn't change his mind he would have destroyed Nineveh regardless. There's absolutely nothing scriptural about God not being able to change his mind.
You're trying too hard with "anthropomorphism" to say God doesn't change his mind. It's clear people want to hold onto their works-salvation perversion of repentance here.
You're trying too hard with "anthropomorphism" to say God doesn't change his mind. It's clear people want to hold onto their works-salvation perversion of repentance here.
Actually, I am not trying hard at all. Everybody who has a reason can understand what anthropomorphism is. And the general teaching of the Church agrees that God knows everything. Which excludes a literal reading of such comments made in the Bible.
You are the one going outside of the church view, so you should try harder than just repeat "it must be literal". Your view also makes you to accept contradictions in the Bible.
You are the one going outside of the church view, so you should try harder than just repeat "it must be literal". Your view also makes you to accept contradictions in the Bible.
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If God knows everything (including future) and if God does not change, He cannot change His mind. Simple.
God does not change:
You are still the same
Psalm (101 LXX) 102:27
Every good act of giving and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of shifting.
James 1:17
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, and today, and to the ages.
Heb 13:8
1 Sam (1Kings in Septuagint):
29 And Israel shall be divided to two: and [God] will not turn nor repent, for he is not as a man to repent.
35 And Samuel did not see Saul again till the day of his death, for Samuel mourned after Saul, and the Lord repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.
So, if both statements are literaly true, we have what? Yep, a contradiction. These two verses were left next to each other for thousands of years. Why? Because its not a contradiction, "repent" there means two different things.
Anthropomorphism.
God does not change:
You are still the same
Psalm (101 LXX) 102:27
Every good act of giving and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of shifting.
James 1:17
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, and today, and to the ages.
Heb 13:8
1 Sam (1Kings in Septuagint):
29 And Israel shall be divided to two: and [God] will not turn nor repent, for he is not as a man to repent.
35 And Samuel did not see Saul again till the day of his death, for Samuel mourned after Saul, and the Lord repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.
So, if both statements are literaly true, we have what? Yep, a contradiction. These two verses were left next to each other for thousands of years. Why? Because its not a contradiction, "repent" there means two different things.
Anthropomorphism.
There is nothing logical about this. I think you do not understand what "anthropomophism" means.
Its derived from the Greek word "anthropos", meaning "human, man".
Anthropomorphism means that men describe God, animals or nature in a human manner, i.e. "God will "remember", God "repented", God has "strong hands", mountains "sing", trees "bow down" etc. When you understand this, there is nothing logical in calling "God created everything" as "anthropomorphism".
Its derived from the Greek word "anthropos", meaning "human, man".
Anthropomorphism means that men describe God, animals or nature in a human manner, i.e. "God will "remember", God "repented", God has "strong hands", mountains "sing", trees "bow down" etc. When you understand this, there is nothing logical in calling "God created everything" as "anthropomorphism".
