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Does God change his mind?
Calvinists say, "NO. He doesn't. Because the future has been predestined"
As I was researching / writing my book against Calvinism, one thing I noticed was a pattern of deliberate dishonesty in the NIV translation.
Edwin H. Palmer, a staunch 5 point Calvinist, was the Executive Secretary of the translation committee. I noticed a HUGE number of discrepancies when comparing the English of the NIV with the actual underlying Hebrew and Greek.
Today, I found some more deliberate dishonesty, centered around the question, "Does God change his mind?"
I stumbled upon this while watching a Greg Boyd video on open theism. He was quoting from Jeremiah 18, which says that God DOES change his mind in response to the behavior of people.
I thought to myself, "He is definitely NOT reading from the NIV there. Because the NIV says that God does NOT change His mind."
So I did some research on the following Hebrew word:
Nacham (Strong's word #5162)
This word appears 108 times in the Old Testament. On only two occasions, it says that God does NOT "nacham".... But on SEVERAL occasions, it says that God DOES "nacham"...
So how did the NIV translators deliberately mislead us???
Watch this....
Numbers 23:19 - God is not a man that he should lie, nor a son of man that he should CHANGE HIS MIND
1 Samuel 15:29 - He who is the Glory of Israel does not lie or CHANGE his mind, for He is not a man that He should CHANGE his MIND.
Yet there are NUMEROUS passages which say that God actually DID change his mind (Hebrew: "nacham"), such as
Jonah 3:9-10 ... God CHANGED HIS MIND and did not destroy Ninevah
Jeremiah 18:8-10 ... God says that he will CHANGE his mind in response to repentance.....
The DELIBERATE inconsistencies in the way the NIV translators did their work betrays their allegiance to Calvinism....
They did the same thing with the Greek word "SARX".... Whenever "sarx" referred to Jesus (1 John 4:3 / 2 John 1:7), they translated it as "FLESH". But whenever the word "SARX" was used in reference to human beings, they translated it as "SINFUL NATURE", in order to build a case for their false doctrine of inborn total depravity....
The idea that Jesus was born without a sinful nature, but everybody else WAS born with a sinful nature is a deliberate lie, based on inconsistent translating work in the NIV...
The word "SARX" changes meaning, depending on who it is describing, in order to build a case for Calvinism....
So does the word "NACHAM"...
WATCH This....
Exodus 13:17 When Pharoah let the people go, God did not lead them on the road through the Philistine country, though that was shorter. For God said, "If they face war, they might CHANGE THEIR MINDS and return to Egypt"
Here is the NIV pattern:
Whenever "nacham" refers to people, translate it as "CHANGE MIND"
Whenever "nacham" refers to God, translate it as (something other than "CHANGE MIND")
In the only 2 passages which are specific examples of God not changing his mind (in 2 specific instances), deliberately mistranslate the verses to extrapolate a general pattern which says...
God NEVER changes his mind....
When you look at the way that the NIV translated words such as "sarx" and "nacham", you see that they were being deliberately dishonest in attempting to build a case for Calvinism
