The Omniscient Yahweh Changes His Mind?

From the Errancy Discussion list, 12-24-98:

Exodus 32:7-14

>BROTHER MICHAEL
Perhaps I did not make myself sufficiently clear; only 

in the rarest of instances is one justified in disobeying 

God or one of His prophets. These three instances are, I 

believe, the only such instances in the OT. Let's look 

briefly at them.

>     

>A. Exodus 32:7-14: Although Moses resisted God, and God 

changed His mind, it is still possible that if Moses had 

stepped aside and allowed God to destroy that disobedient 

generation of Israelites, and start over again with just 

Moses and his immediate family, things ultimately might 

have turned out better all around, although there is no 

way of knowing for sure. So I cannot say for certain that 

Moses did the right thing in resisting God. After the same 

manner, God gave Israel a king when they rejected Him as 

being their only King, and wanted a king just like the 

nations round about.

>

>DAVIS
Hold it, Michael! I may not be as learned and erudite as 

other posters, but I can tell when something's rotten. Why 

am I expected to believe that an omniscient, prescient, and 

omnipotent being like YHWH can be argued out of His intention 

by a former shepherd? Admittedly, YHWH was a bit out of sorts 

that day, acting like a child throwing a temper tantrum, but 

still, to lose an argument with a mere human?  What kind of 

god are you selling here?  This is a god who changes his mind?  

To use biblical language a god who can "repent"?


TILL
The incident that Michael referred to here is just one of many 

that could be cited to show the absurdity of believing that the 

Bible is the inspired work of an omniscient, omnipotent deity.  

I cited this example in my series of postings about a year ago 

that were intended to show the logistic impossibilities in some 

of the wilderness-wandering stories.  Few inerrantist attempts 

were made to resolve the many problems that I identified in those 

postings.  If Fitzpatrick keeps spamming us with cut-and-paste 

jobs, I'm going to forward those postings to him and ask him

to resolve the problems identified in them.

Farrell Till