Hebrew Distinctions

Dr Thomas Renz suggested (at the Latimer Trust Ability & Reliability day yesterday) suggested that in Hebrew one would characteristically say, for example, “God repents” and “God does not repent” to make a distinction and explain that in some senses God might be said to repent and in some ways he may not. This would be a way of expressing a doctrine of the immutability of God without implying that he is static and inert, without resorting to the kind of exact scientific terminology Systematic Theology has developed. Both methods have their place and we should take care to distinguish when we move towards making value judgements.