Why God Is Unchanging—and Why It Matters

With our weak and fallen minds we try to imagine God, and thus we condemn Him to motion and mobility. Here's why we should rise above that error.

For quite some time now, it has been fashionable in certain theological circles to attribute change to God—not in the poetic way Scripture does (e.g., “God repented of having created man”), but really meaning to say that God really changes with the changing world, that He will be different tomorrow from what He was yesterday, and even that we can alter …