What use is a God who changes and evolves? There are theologians in our day who see God as "in process," that He, like us, is coming to new understandings and changing according to those understandings. There are certainly great benefits to be had in such a god, not the least of which is our ability to invent a god completely to our own liking, to throw out the bits of Scripture that make us uncomfortable or would require us to change and simply declare that God is changing His attitude towards things as He grows in understanding to catch up with us. I can see how such a god could be attractive if I had decided that I wanted a god who thought much like I do on things.
The problem with an "in process" god is that we can't truly know or declare anything about that god at all, all our understandings would have to be contingencies, until the god itself comes to fuller understandings. We are left with a god who would constantly be saying little more than "Huh, I hadn't thought of that." Essentially a radical Darwinian world view has been imposed upon the deity, even God is subject to evolution or, at the least, surprised by it in His creation.
The immutability of God is important for us who choose to believe in and follow Him. On this doctrine rests many others, including the sovereignty and omnipotence of God and the authority of Jesus to speak on behalf of the Father. If God is changeable, the cross is not necessarily the final word on sin, and if God's attitudes towards sin are evolving, then righteousness also is ever changing and at some point has no meaning at all as tolerance becomes the only measure of righteousness yet that tolerance is itself intolerant of what it deems to be intolerance which was originally defined as righteousness. The image of a dog chasing its tail comes to mind. To be changed into the likeness of God in Jesus Christ means that we can orient by the fixed point of the unchangeable nature of God, not a moving target.
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