This question has been merged with How do you reconcile verses that say God does NOT regret/repent (Numbers 23:19, 1 Samuel 15:29), with verses that indicate God DOES at times regret/repent (Genesis 6:6, 1 Samuel 15:11, 35)?
How and why can God be sorry?
When God revealed His plan to destroy the world with a Flood, He told Noah, "I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them" (Genesis 6:7) Doesn't this mean God didn't realize what He was doing when He created everything? That He had doubts? That He was trying to correct His own mistake? It certainly doesn't seem to indicate that he is omniscient.
Genesis 6:7
ESV - 7 So the Lord said, "I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them.
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Asked September 03 2014
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Gary Creel
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