Does God alter His own will at times??

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Thanks for the info skypair.
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Even better!

skypair

 

Hi Allan;
I don't believe these scriptures are a picture of God changing His will but rather changing the possible lives of men to meet His will. God's will, will always be consitently the same. Even though all things may or may not be according to His will. We may start our lives as vessels of wrath and be changed into vessels of life as a result of the seed of His word planted inside us.
MB

 

I don't believe God changes His will, but I do believe He changes His method. When Cain killed Able, through whom God would have provided the Saviour, God raised up Seth. No matter how much satan tries to thwart God's plan, he can't do it. God simply takes a different route. Of course, since God sees and knows everything, He is never taken by surprise. He knows beforehand what satan will do and has a backup plan ready. I can't help but wonder if God doesn't get some pleasure out of making satan's feeble efforts null and void.:godisgood:

 

If God didn't know He wouldn't be all knowledgeable

Everyman has two possibilities where Salvation and condemnation is concerned. We are sinners by nature but we don't have to stay in this condition. We have been granted repentance.
Act 11:18 When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life.

Of course He does but we still have to make those same decisions. His knowledge doesn't determine our destiny. What determines our destiny is our willness to let the seed mature and produce fruit. If we reject the seed then God never knew it. God can't know unless we make the decision. We aren't His unless we make the right descission

I disagree that mans destiny is set from before the foundation of the world. Scripture never says when we are predestined. Predestination is those terms is fatalism. It's fatalism because man would never be able to escape it.
It also ignores the fact that all things are possible with God.

His will is that man come to Him by there own voluntary will. Just as man had to bring His own sacrifice for sin to the priest voluntarily in the O.T.
Lev 1:3 If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD.

Being voluntary means that it wasn't predestined to happen. The whosoever wills are this same voluntary will that was expressed before Christ.

I wouldn't call it two wills but two plans one for the obedient and one for the disobedient. It isn't particular to the individual but is based on the faith of the man and whether or not it grows. We are nothing but clay in God's hand and He can change how we are molded. All men are sinners from the beginning of there lives but the seed, and man's response to it. Can change the heart of men. When the heart changes so does his destiny. There is nothing I know of in scripture that indicates that mans destiny is permanate from birth.
MB

 

True. But the fact that He has that knowledge means that our destiny is determined.