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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 29, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 17.

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Repent

No. 541. "Repent," Gen. 6 : 6; Acts 15 : 18.

Will you harmonize these texts: Gen. 6:6; Acts 15:18? Could God repent of works he knew would be?
God speaks to men in the language of men. Every good emotion in the human heart is in the heart of God in its perfection. God gave man only that which was good and which would have worked out for man's everlasting good if man used it aright. But man did not; many would not; and all this God knew; and yet he gave them his perfect plan, knowing it would eternally triumph, with all those who desired to triumph in the right way, while those who did not count themselves worthy of everlasting life would perish. Notwithstanding this, when God saw how man opposed his own soul's best interest and turned of his own choice to destruction, it repented him, it gave him sorrow of heart, that he had made them. His pity and compassion were moved for them. See Judges 10 : 16.