Opus 2025-402: Dynamic Immutability

Last week I preached on the great “I am” statement of God in Exodus 3:14.  At one point I touched on the attributes of God and in that particular passage, the attribute is the fact that he exists.  It is a powerful reality if we embrace it.

When thinking about the attributes of God, one that comes up from a theological perspective is that God is immutable.  I have a problem with the theological approach to it because often people who approach it that way tend to create in their mind a static God.  They claim that God does not change, which is scriptural.  The question is, what do you mean by change?

It is absurd to the point of being absurd to say that God is changeless.  Just look at the emotional expressions that we get.  We see the wrath of God.  We see the patience of God.  Those are two different emotional states that are not consistent with how some people describe immutability.  God changes while His basic character does not.

One of the reasons that He must change is that He’s dealing with us.  He made us in His image and as I’ve said many times that involves us having free will.  Setting aside all of the discussion of being inside time and outside time along with eternity and infinity and just get down to it.  We seem to have free will.  We make decisions.  We are responsible for those decisions.  Because of that, God cannot be static, He must be dynamic.

So wrap your mind around it, God changes in his unchangeability.  Surely that’s not harder for you to accept then the idea of one God and three persons. Or is it three persons in one God?

The lessons we learn in eternity are going to be fascinating.

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