Is God 'allowed' to change his mind?

Hi David,Of course God can change his mind, there are a few examples of him doing just that in the Bible.For example, in Genesis 18:26 onwards you will find Abraham talking God into changing his mind, God had already decided to destroy Sodom, but Abraham asks him if He would wipe out all the righteous people along with the wicked, and asks if there were 50 righteous people would he spare Sodom. Abraham talks the rather thick God down to ten people, this does sort of negate God's omniscience as he has no clue how many righteous people are in Sodom. Actually his omniscience is nullified in verse 21 when he admits he has no clue how bad the people of Sodom have been.Now it comes to pass that there weren't even 10 righteous people in Sodom, how God is oblivious to this information only He knows. This fairytale also begs a question; How can Lot be righteous if he was prepared to throw his daughters to the men of Sodom to be raped? Unless this is righteous in the eyes of God.So this proves that God can and does change His mind.Even God's alter ego Jesus changed his mind when he realised how selfish he was being. The Canaanite woman (Matthew 15:22) who asks for help for her daughter embarrasses Jesus into changing his mind, and his entire mission on earth.Also:Exodus 32:14 And the LORD changed his mind about the disaster that he planned to bring on his people.Wouldn't it be funny if God changed his mind about damnation! LOLAll these idiots running about telling us we need to get saved and they do not know that God has changed his mind!Best WishesBrian.

Hi Paul, This depends on what type of law and whose conscience you are talking about. For example, what is lawful in the UK may not be lawful in the USA. As for conscience, this depends entirely on your upbringing. If I find a wallet in the street I take it straight to the nearest police station to see if someone has been looking for it, another person would empty the contents into his pocket and throw the wallet away. Apparently God has given us both a conscience, but it is the way we are brought up that influences to what degree that conscience is ‘moral’. Animals can break the law as well, although they are ignorant of the law, and they can pay the consequences. It happens fairly regularly that a dog will assault a child and then that dog is put down. Also, how can we expect animals to have a conscience that resembles ours, they do not have the same level of intelligence as we do. You are comparing two incompatible creatures. Well, apparently God created us, and God is a pretty unintelligent being who is incapable of making a perfect universe and perfect inhabitants. This is why He is blamed, it reminds me of an old saying, ‘it is a poor workman that blames his tools.’ God is a workman who cannot ‘make’ things very well, so instead of taking the blame for being useless, he blames his tools (us) and this removes the fact that He is the one who is hopeless. Neither we nor anyone else can prove that God exists in the first place so we cannot show you any evidence. That the God of the Bible is a bloodthirsty Barbarian can be deduced by the many stories about him recorded in the Bible. Since we have no direct evidence of God we can judge him on the things He was meant to have done. A great deal of God’s acts in the Bible are horrific, and He well justifies the label of Barbarian. Why include a mythological being that there is no need to include in the equation?As one wise man at this site proclaims ‘Occam’s Razor is not for shaving with!’Best Wishes.Brian.

Hi, Lets suppose that one of them did touch them, say the ten year old. What would your father do?Would he give the lad a stern talking too, would he perhaps ground him for a few days, or would he throw him out the house telling him never to return and put a curse upon him and all of his children?Brian.