“The word of the Lord came to Samuel: ‘I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned back from following me and has not performed my commandments.’ ”
“It is apparent this type of statement does not present a problem to you
but it might to the newcomer. It seems to contradict or at least not explain the
presumption or notion of God’s omniscience. How can God regret something that
he is, by definition, aware of from the beginning?”
Q’s email arrived just as I was sitting down to pick out a topic for today’s post.
We may have to change his name to “On-Cue Man”. There’s more to his missive,
including thoughts-in-progress about how such a conundrum might be resolved,
which you can find here, at the original post.