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Does God Change His Mind ? Ibn Ḥazm on Exo­dus 32 – 33

Does God change or does not change His mind ? Accord­ing to Ibn Hazm, Exo­dus 32:10 – 14 and 33:3 – 14 ascribes al-bada’ (chang­ing of mind) to God and hence this presents a prob­lem to the nature of God and His char­ac­ters with regard to His All-Know­ing attribute. When one com­pares the above pas­sages side by side, the inter­nal con­tra­dic­tions between espe­cial­ly Exo­dus 32:10, 32:14 and 33:2 – 3 on the one hand and Exo­dus 33:14 on the oth­er, clear­ly rais­es many prob­lems of the­o­log­i­cal and moral con­cern from the Bib­li­cal con­text. In this case that was quot­ed above, in spite of God’s deter­mi­na­tion to pun­ish the Israelites for their idol­a­trous con­duct, He did not exe­cute pun­ish­ment due to the inter­ces­sion of Moses who had ​“remind­ed” God of His promise made with Abra­ham and the patri­achs for their descen­dents. This Bib­li­cal pas­sage seems to implic­it­ly sug­gest that this ​“reminder” had made God realise his ​“wrong” deci­sion and have Him repent­ing for it. Such an obvi­ous ​“error” or even to imply such a thing is hard­ly befit­ting any per­son of integri­ty, let alone God, the Almighty.

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