Jeremiah 32:35 is recounting of an earlier time of Judah's sinfulness. Both Israel and Judah had provoked God due to their sin of idolatry (Jer. 7:30-32; 19:5-6) and had refused the correction of God. Therefore, God delivered them into judgment (Jer. 32:36-41). It is...
"Then the Lord said to me in the days of Josiah the king, "Have you seen what faithless Israel did? She went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and she was a harlot there. 7"And I thought, ‘After she has done all these things, she will return to Me’;...
"Then I said, ‘How I would set you among My sons, and give you a pleasant land, the most beautiful inheritance of the nations!’ And I said, ‘You shall call Me, My Father, and not turn away from following Me.’ 20“Surely, as a woman treacherously departs from her lover,...
"Perhaps they will listen and everyone will turn from his evil way, that I may repent of the calamity which I am planning to do to them because of the evil of their deeds," (Jer. 26:3). The Lord often speaks to us in our time reference so that what He wants to...
“Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? Did he not fear the Lord and entreat the favor of the Lord, and the Lord changed His mind about the misfortune which He had pronounced against them? But we are committing a great evil against ourselves,"...
"and have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, a thing which I never commanded or spoke of, nor did it ever enter My mind," (Jer. 19:5). This verse is answered the same way as Jer. 7:31.ex Is the Lord actually saying...
"At one moment I might speak concerning a nation or concerning a kingdom to uproot, to pull down, or to destroy it; 8if that nation against which I have spoken turns from its evil, I will relent concerning the calamity I planned to bring on it. 9Or at another moment I...
Isaiah 5:3-7 is a perfect example of anthropomorphism found in a parable which is in the form of a song, where God speaks in human terms. God expects one thing and gets another. Is this an example of God being surprised and learning? No, it is not. God knows all...
Open Theism, also called openness and the open view, is a theological position dealing with human free will and its relationship to God and the nature of the future. It is the teaching that God has granted to humanity free will and that in order for the free will to...
"And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart," (Gen. 6:6, NASB). The above verse is not a problem for Classical Christian Theism, nor is it a proof text for Open Theism. The verse simply tells us that the Lord was grieved...