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    It is not the case that Many sorts of mental change in God are ruled out.

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    Reasons For

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    Reason for 1 of 2
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    • 1.Scripture also depicts God as repenting, grieving, and responding to prayer, suggesting genuine divine mental change.
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    • 2.A hermeneutic that selectively privileges 'perfection' texts over 'relational' texts requires independent justification beyond consistency with Greek metaphysics.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Process theologians like Whitehead and Hartshorne argue that a God who cannot be affected by creatures is deficient in relational perfection, not exemplary of it.
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    • 2.If perfection includes maximal responsiveness and love, then the capacity for mental change in response to creatures may be a divine perfection rather than an imperfection.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Scripture amply supports the claim that God is perfect in knowledge, will, and affect.
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    • 2.Perfection in knowledge, will, and affect seems to rule out many sorts of mental change.
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