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Originally Posted by Astrocloud
According to the Bible (OT) God changed His mind when he promised a miracle to King David. David sinned (murder and adultery) and God rescinded a miracle. Even though I posted that "I don't know" -if you are a hard core bible believer -there's your answer.
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If you would read the above posts, you would see that the issue is more complicated than that. Before sinning God was going to give him a miracle, and after he sinned he was not worthy of it. Is that God changing his mind, or rather reacting to the decision of a human with free will?
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Originally Posted by CSflim
Well as a nonbeliever the answer to such a question is irrelevant...
However; to me it seems that the answer must be no. If god is omniscient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent then god always knows what is the right thing to do, is always capable of doing that thing, and is compelled to do it. If he were to do otherwise it would surely be in contradiction to one of these three things?
Or perhaps you believe that god is not all three of these things?
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It can be expected that God will do the right thing, but what if the right thing to do does not remain constant? A human being can change events, and in order to do the right thing God must do something different than what he would have done had that person not made those decisions. In order for free will to have any worth God cannot act preemptively according to sins that have not been made yet, but because he can see into the future he has already made judgements on everything that will happen.
I guess what it comes down to is that God does not change his mind, but will change his reactions in response to what we do. It is not a surprise to God, but prompts a change in actions.