My Bible tells me that Moses changed God’s mind.
And
That Jesus was touched with the feelings of our infirmities.
There are other Scriptures indicating that the above assertion is plainly false and at best grossly oversimplified.
It is part of the magnamimous mystery of The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob that HE INVITES US INTO HIS REALM . . . TO CARE FOR US AS CHILDREN, INDEED, AS FRIENDS, . . . AND TO BE RESPONSIVE TO EVEN OUR PRAYERS AND THE THOUGHTS AND INTENTS OF OUR HEARTS . . . EVEN TO THE POINT OF GIVING US the desires of our hearts when our soul is fixed on Him.
HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH US IS A DANCE.
One doesn’t dance with robots . . . except in a comedy show or a sci-fi horror film.
This makes good Bible study, better study than Calvin ever got trying to filter truth through Augustine. Thanks.
Thanks for your kind words.
I persistently endeavor to take Scripture at face value as well as digging out the hidden treasures.
The essentials are not obscure, imho.
Nor, are the essentials all THAT arguable by fair-minded reasonable folks.
imho, almost by definition, if something is THAT arguable, it’s probably not an essential.
God was not THAT incompetent [i.e. he was 0.0000 to infinity flawed—i.e. not at all] God didn’t have any trouble at making the essentials clear, in His Word.
And, it’s usually not the obscure, arguable, seemingly conflicted Scritpures that give most of us our most trouble. It’s the ones that are starkly clear and starkly simple. Love God wholly—put Him first in all things. Love others as yourself. Forgive all—all the time. Avoid unfitting carnal judgment.
The stuff so much heat and so little light is about hereon is usually varying sized piles of relative chaff.
imho.