themuzicman
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RobE said:God is certainly capable of anything. He didn't lie to Moses any more than He lied to Neb., Jonah, or the Ninevites. He's incapable of lying. God could have fulfilled His promise while following through with His threat against Israel.
Thus, there is no reason to believe the things you insert into the text, and simply read it as it reads: God tells Moses of His intent to destroy Israel and start over with him, Moses pleads (and from the further text, fasted), and God changed His mind.
Just like the text reads.
I certainly haven't. I was trying to point out that God did as He foretold He would when we review the historical record. It's that simple. The arguments that God changed his mind seem rather sickly when we compare what God foretold would happen and realize that it inevitably did happen just as it was foretold.
But as you've already acknowledged, it could have happened as foretold without God changing His mind, too, so there is no reason to accept your line of reasoning as necessary or a basis for disbelieving what is written in the text.
QED.
Muz