Does God regret and change his mind?

How can God be all knowing and unchangeable, yet the Bible says that he “regretted” creating human beings (Genesis 6:6) and relented from destroying Israel after Moses prayed (Exodus 32:14)?

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[CesarGallegosMusicComposer]

Wish I was as bright as Frank Turek when dealing with apologetics. Awesome answers. Thanks sir for the work you do for the Lord. 👏👏

[chezkaloria]

Yes that's exactly what God said, "Am I a man that I should repent?
I say absolutely not Father! You are greater than all creation in which you created O' Lord

[Darth_Vader]

I NEED to STOP on fearing Hell and avoiding it, but my FOCUS should be on LOVING God and going to Heaven.

[stilllooking]

The purpose is knowledge
To know where we stand when it comes to faith/level of faith
He knows us better than we know ourselves so when He does anything it's for our benefit, to know Him (His limitlessness) and ourselves (our limits)

[keisha]

Good analogy. GOD IS ALL KNOWING & DOES NOT CHANGE!

[lesgensquinoientlespoisson]

God Saddened for the action of mankind it is not that he changed his mind, great Dr turek

[NewCreationInChrist]

Amen we’re His fellow workers, He’s intentional.
Romans 8:28 1 Corinthians 3:9

[thomasb]

This is excellent. Very well said Mr. Turek, I think you’re exactly right.
And yes. There are a few places in the OT where God uses the word repent, but your response answers it all the same.

[eada]

The Bible as a communication tool; there are so many words, and their use is finite. So if Father says He repented creating man, that’s for our benefit of understanding His heartache, but we should not apply our own feelings to the use of words.

[colmwhateveryoulike]

Jonah is the best story that I can think of, which explores this aspect of reality quite thoroughly. But the Bible is full of exactly these kinds of examples Frank talks about. A personal spiritual relationship with God or narrative or historic examination of some personal and cultutal relationship with God is all about us learning our place in Creation and our Creator. It's in God's response to our choices that most lessons lie. If we want to learn about creation we test it's relative responses to itself, so in the same manner when it comes to getting to know God we do the same. And as we learn I think we get to see that God personifies the truest expression of love. And as we learn how God is, we are taught to be our most true and loving self. It's almost difficult to accept that God could be gracious enough to love us so perfectly that it will be enough when we no longer "see through a glass; darkly". Yet His way of relating to us is so self-definitively true that it has to be assumed. Unless a reason to doubt it conjured up and lended the weight of trust by a serpent or ourselves ever since.

[onestepaway]

God says throughout scripture if we pray and call on him he will bless us. It’s an act on our part in coming to God

[tommyrotton]

God is all we are all god.
God is beyond our understanding...
You, me and him are god

[dontworryyoullbealright]

Ahh now that makes sense, it finally struck in my head, thanks!!!

[DiscipleShaynePlaylist]

God is always God and a part of His being is that He allows us to make requests and to pray and to ask and to give. God is interactive. And Worthy to be praised.

[FocusontheKingdom]

God explicitly says He Himself changes His mind. Nothing to do with Moses' point of view:
Gen. 22:12, "For now I know that you fear God..."
Jer. 18:7-11, "I will relent concerning the calamity I planned to bring."
Ezek. 20:21-22, "I resolved to pour out My wrath...but I withdrew My hand..."

[FiciousCritik]

Wealth of Wisdom in resolving seemingly contradictory Scripture.

[EnLaLunaGuzman]

And what happened with Ezekiah? He was told by Isaiah he was going to die and then he wept and God said He saw Ezekiah’s tears and gave him other 15 years.

[GradyRisley]

God is always changing His mind because He never changes. He is love and Agape is always adapting and working.

[jesuschristbiblebiblestudy]

God’s unlikeness to human beings is asserted in Bible: God does not sleep (Ps. 121:4); he is not a human being that he should lie or change his mind (Num. 23:19; 1 Sam. 15:29). Amen

[meejtswb]

“I have seen these people, ” the LORD said to Moses, “and they are a stiff-necked people. Now leave me alone so that my anger may burn against them and that I may destroy them. Then I will make you into a great nation.” (Exodus 32:9-10, NIV). The text is clear God is going to destroy them (those that anger Him) and create a great nation through Moses (Moses is an Israeli so God never intended to wipe out the Israeli nation). God did destroy them (the stiff neck people that anger God) just as He said when Moses went back down with the ten commandments.