I'm Pastor Mike Winger and this is Bible Thinker the program dedicated to thinking

biblically about everything. The question we're asking in tonight's study is

what is up with God repenting in the Bible?

There's several passages that say that God repents or relents, and there's even a couple where it says he changes his mind,

and this seems to have big implications about our theology of who God is.

If we're going to take those passages kind of out of context, like a lot of people do.

So we're going to look at them in context and try to understand the theology, the Bible's teaching us about who God is.

I'll give you some examples. So Genesis chapter 6, verse 5, it says,

Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

The Lord was sorry that he had made man on the earth and he was grieved in his heart the Lord said I will blot out man whom

I've created from the face of the land from man to animals to creeping things and to

birds of the sky for I am sorry that I have made them that phrase I'm sorry that I have made them. That phrase I'm sorry that I have made them and this

draws immediately draws your attention to the passage. There's another similar

passage in 1st Samuel chapter 15 in verses 11 verse 35, it says kind of the same thing.

I'll read these two verses to you.

1st Samuel 1511.

I regret, this is God speaking,

I regret that I've made Saul king,

for he's turned back from following me and

is not carried out my commands and Samuel was distressed and cried out to the Lord

all night so God regrets that he made him king again we get this in verse 35 of the same chapter for

Samuel 15. Samuel did not see Saul again until the day of his death for Samuel was

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