[mdmathis6]

“Our God is a God of no surprises. Being perfect, he is unchangeable. Being unchangeable, He can never have anything new in Him.”Mundabor

His essential character will never change, his love, fairness, justice and willingness to show mercy will never change. God’s moral statutes that he laid down for man will never change. Yet God’s ways are higher than man’s ways and if he decides to show man something of his essential character that he has never revealed before...does that mean he has “changed”?

The Jews never accepted Christ in part (’he was a stumbling block to the Jews and to the Greeks, foolishness’) because their concept of an “unchanging God” did not fit with a God in Flesh who came to redeem all men by dying on the cross, (not just for the Jews), and to establish a heavenly Kingdom...not an Earthly one free of the Gentile subjugation of the Hebrew peoples!

God is unchanging, but humanity’s concept of God’s full “unchanging” personality is frightfully limited.

[boatbums]

God HAS surprised me on several occasions. It doesn't mean I believe He is changeable, just that when I have prayed about something important to me and surrendered to His will, I see how in time He works all things for my good - sometimes in surprising ways. I don't claim to read Pope Francis' mind, but this might be what he was talking about.

I find it curious that some Roman Catholics are so vociferously against everything he says but will condemn "Protestants" for not being in submission to the Pope of Rome and head shepherd of ALL Christendom. It's no surprise that the Reformation went into full swing around the same time of some of the worst Popes in Roman Catholicism's history.