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Tim,
Do you think we can infer that God’s apparently ‘changing His mind’, or ‘repenting’ in passages such as Exodus 32:14
“So the Lord changed His mind about the harm which He said He would do to His people”
are examples of the preincarnate Son “learning” or changing during this process akin to a son’s apprenticeship? (Otherwise, we have to invoke anthropopathism or other literary device to explain what seems illogical: I.e. that God is somehow surprised by an eventuality, causing Him to change tack.)
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Hi Lena,
Tim’s right (who’s surprised? ). In Hebrew,’dadי is אב, and ‘father’ is אבא.
Also, ‘love’ is אהבה. (Remembering to read right to left) in both words the ב is the Hebrew letter ‘bet’, and it is sometimes pronounced like our “b” and sometimes like our “v”, but is a different letter to the ‘waw’ (or ‘vav’) in the Tetragrammaton יהוה (the 3rd letter from the right, which in classical Hebrew looks more like ך )
But, I do like your thinking, and it’s so intriguing to explore God’s name, right?! It’s strange that we haven’t been left with the definitive pronunciation of יהוה. Maybe He wants to surprise us when Jesus (Yeshua?) returns 🙂
Roman

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