Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: Bible Study - Sabbath School Podcast
Episode: Episode 2297 - Lesson 6 - Wednesday Feb. 05 - A repenting God?
Description:
Can God “repent”? If so, what would that mean? We have seen that God’s character never changes. However, some biblical texts speak of God as “repenting” or “relenting.” At least for humans, repentance involves recognition that one has done something wrong. How, then, can some biblical passages depict God as “repenting”?
Read Exodus 32:14 and compare it with Jeremiah 18:4–10. What do you make of these descriptions of God’s “relenting”?
In these and many other passages, God is depicted as relenting of judgment in response to some repentance or intercession by people. God promises that...