Can God change his mind? Jimmy Aiken, next.

Hello, and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers podcast for living,

understanding and defending your Catholic faith.

I'm Psy Kellett, your host, and this time we take a question that came from a listener.

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And this question, can God change his mind?

It would appear from Scripture that God can change his mind.

It would appear from philosophy and from advanced theology that God cannot change his mind.

How do we reconcile these things?

Well, the perfect guy to ask about that is the guy who wrote this book,

the words of eternal life, true happiness,

and where to find it. That's the new book from Jimmy Aiken.

So we ask Jimmy, come on in and explain to us, can God change his mind?

Thank you, Jimmy, again, for joining us on Focus. Appreciate that.

My pleasure, Psy Kellett.

So this question comes from a listener who suggested it via our email.

And it's about whether or not God changes his mind.

And I looked up a couple of passages of Scripture to share with you,

because in Exodus 32, in Exodus chapter 32 verse 14, Moses has to try to convince God

not to do some smiting, because people have not been holding up their end.

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