GENESIS 6:6, C. H. Cayce Joseph A. Brown, of Foss, Okla., requests our views on Gen. 6:6 and Exo. 32:14; Gen. 6:6 reads, “And it repented the Lord that He had made man on the earth, and it grieved Him at His heart.” This was said in Noah’s day before the flood. Gen. 6: says, “And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.” Just one hundred and twenty years from that time the Lord sent the flood and destroyed man from the face of the earth. Verse 3 says, “Yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.” This was just one hundred and twenty years before the flood. Hence, this is what the language refers to, and has no reference whatever to the eternal salvation of sinners, as modern theologians usually teach.
Exo. 32:14 says, “And the Lord repented of the evil which He thought to do unto His people.” This was said concerning the children of Israel when they were in the wilderness worshiping the golden calf which Aaron made. Moses was in the mount receiving the law which the Lord had written on tables of stone. The Lord told Moses what the Israelites were doing, and said they were a stiff-necked people, and threatened to consume them. Moses made intercession for them, and the Lord heard his cries in their behalf and their punishment was suspended. But as a result of this sin three thousand of them were destroyed in one day—see Exo. 32:28.
These passages cannot mean that God changes, as men do. The Lord says (Mal 3:6) “For I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.” The Lord does not change. His love, tender care and protection is ever the same. His children may so live as to bring down upon themselves His displeasure and the chastening rod, and be punished severely for their wickedness— yet the Lord ever remains the same. They may deny Him, yet He abideth faithful— He cannot deny Himself. Thank and praise His holy name that these things are so. The Primitive Baptist, June 24, 1913.