Can God Be Both Immutable and Omniscient?
The traditional attribute of divine immutability actually has scant support in the Bible. The author of James claims that with God there is no such thing as alteration, no shadow of a change (1:17, NIV). A commentator in the New Bible Dictionary agrees that there is no change in his nature or in his purposes or promises: All suggestions of change are figures of speech.11 If the Incarnation is to be taken literally, then there definitely must have been some change in the nature of God if he indeed became flesh. One evangelical theologian openly admits this when he states that the Second Person took upon Himself a catastrophic change of existence through His incarnation….then subsequently resurrection, life, and ascension introduced a change into the very realm of the Godhead…. How can anyone in simple mindedness conceive of such immense interpersonal changes in the essential nature and experiences of the Godhead without allowing a true chronology of succession in the divine existenc
