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Re: Jonah

Re: questions about God's infallibity vis a vis changing the Divine Mind.

I think the whole discussion is anachronistically projecting a greek-
influenced conception of God (infallible, unchanging) onto a much older
author's conception of the Hebrews' deity (anthropomorphic, time-embedded).  So
I, personally, don't find it a particularly useful question to ask, whether the
instances of God changing his mind in those stories contradicts the
infallibility doctrine, because the man (or woman) who wrote those stories had
never heard of the infallibility doctrine, and that wasn't a part of his/her
conception of what God is.  So there's no paradox or puzzle here.
  
Cuts through the whole Gordian knot.
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Don Smith                           Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment
donaldas at umich_edu                                 http://xte.mit.edu/~dasmith/

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        				     - "Speed" Levitch in _Waking Life_
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