which is not permanent, it follows that He knows something which He must learn to unknow, for the benefit of our race.
Such a view would bring us upon an outworn theological platform, which contains such planks as the Divine Repentance, and the belief that God must one day do His work over again, because it was not at first done aright.
Can it be seriously held, by any thinker, that long after God made the universe,—earth, man, animals, plants, the sun, the moon, and “the stars also,”—He should so gain wisdom and power from past experience, that He could vastly improve upon His own previous work,—as Burgess, the boatbuilder, remedies in the Volunteer the shortcomings of the Puritan's model?
Christians are commanded to grow in grace. Was it necessary for God to grow in grace, that He might rectify His spiritual universe?
The Jehovah, of limited Hebrew faith, might need repentance, because His created children proved sinful; but the New Testament tells us of the Father of Lights, with whom is “no variableness or shadow of turning.” God is not the shifting vane on the
