Allie Beth Stuckey

They're imperfect.

And I actually think that's one of the beautiful things about the Bible and why to me it is so trustworthy and reliable is because the writers of the Bible don't try to make themselves look better.

They're just like, this is how it was.

We said something that was wrong and then it was corrected.

And I think that's important.

But we don't actually see that prophets from Scripture, when they are saying this is a prophecy, are incorrect or something doesn't come true.

Go ahead.

Yeah, well, he was a human, and I don't think that we read there that he prophesied that that was true, but he had a misconception.

A lot of early churches did.

But in Deuteronomy 18, God says, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word that the Lord has not spoken, and the prophet has spoken presumptuously.

So I do think that any word that comes from the Lord and actually comes from the Lord through a prophet has to come true,

in order for God to not be a liar, which I think we agree he's not.

Yeah, it does seem that at the same time, God is completely sovereign, that nothing catches him off guard, that nothing takes him aback, that nothing surprises him because he is suspended in the eternal now.

He is not limited by time and space and on the linear timeline that we are.

And yet that is an interesting passage where he says he changes his mind.

And maybe that's a colloquial phrase to help us understand that he communicated one thing to Jonah and it was his plan all along for redemption and salvation for his people.

I'm not sure that that supports the idea that his nature changes or that he is a changing one.

Would you agree with that?

Okay, I have three more clarifying questions.

Three more clarifying questions for you.