So the Lord changed His mind about the harm which He said He would do to His people.I like to think I'm pretty good at wrapping my brain around difficult concepts. I may not understand the why, but normally I can get an idea for the how. This however, is the kind of thing that makes my head hurt. The closest analogy I can think of my confusion here is the worst kind of temporal paradox in science fiction.
We here have the infinite, outside of time, unchanging God who changes His mind. By most understandings, God shouldn't be able to change His mind. He already knows everything that's going to ever happen, so He should already have accounted for how He will react. But somehow He doesn't. Moses has to convince Him not to wipe the Israelites out, which He already knew He wouldn't, but he'd decided to already...
Anybody got some ideas on this? This would be one part of God's nature that I don't have a clue on.
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