Part Three
Theology Proper: 18 THE BIBLICAL VIEW OF GOD
A DISPENSATIONAL THEOLOGY
By Charles F Baker
Theology Proper: 18 THE BIBLICAL VIEW OF GOD
A DISPENSATIONAL THEOLOGY
By Charles F Baker
In
trying to solve this problem it may help to consider the question: “Which
changes, the wind or the weather-vane?” or, “Which changes, the temperature or
the thermometer?” In one sense they both change, but in a truer sense the
weather-vane and the thermometer do not change. The vane always points in the
direction of the wind and the thermometer always registers the correct
temperature. God said He was going to destroy the great city of Nineveh because of their great sin (Jonah 3:4). But the inhabitants of Nineveh believed
the prophet and repented in sackcloth and ashes from the king on down, saying, “Who
can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that
we perish not?” And we read that God did repent (vs. 10). This is the kind of repenting which the weather-vane
does. Actually God has not changed, for He has declared that this is the
unchanging nature of His character: “If that nation, concerning which I have
pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to
do unto them” (Jeremiah 18:8).
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