So
the Lord changed His mind about the harm which He said He would do to His people,"
Exodus 32:12-14,
Man has changed God's mind at times. God was dealing with a very ugly, willful group of people. They were the only people on earth that God retracted His unmerited favor for them and changed His name from Abba< Loving, constantly forgiving, Daddy, to Judge. He did so because they challenged Him to bring it!
When they decided to kill Moses it was the last straw. He started dropping them like flies. Aaron changed God's mind, and He stopped. For Aaron's sake, not the Jew's sake.
We are made in His image. Just like us, God experiences joy, sadness, pride, anguish, compassion, anger, forgiveness.
I had a Dad who loved me to the moon and back, but boy, could I ever piss him off, and was often punished for my behavior, but was always and perpetually forgiven, because He loved me.
There is a paradox in omnipresence and omniscience. If He exists at all times and not only knows what will happen but has already experienced the future, as we perceive time, how can He change His mind?
As in this case...."So the Lord changed His mind about the harm which He said He would do to His people," (
Exodus 32:14, NASB). God had compassion, which changed his mind.
Akasha is the hall of records, where everything that has happened or ever will happen, is already written down. That's where John was taken by the angel to learn what to write about Revelations. It is also where Edgar Cayce went to get information.
Edgar Cayce A.R.E. Akashic Records/Book of Life
Akashic Records
That doesn't address the paradox. How can God, who is all places at all times and who already knows what will happen, change His mind?
God changing His mind, changes the future. He knows it will and the change is ok with Him, and factored into the future. He can look to a point in the future and say, this is where I changed my mind and this is the difference that it made, in the future. A whole lot of the Bible contains covenants that say, "If you do this, then I will do this..." The future, like time is malleable. And considering how many dimensions there may be, God may be able to point to a dimension and say, "Here is the future where I did not change my mind." There may be a parallel universe where Aaron did not intercede, and God's mind was not changed. There is so much we have yet to learn about the Physics of God.
The Jews God would have killed, for trying to kill Moses, continued with their lives and the future was altered for them, and God knew beforehand what Aaron was going to do. Yet, He let him do it and in so doing, righteousness was counted to Aaron.
Abraham had an odd encounter with God. Not odd if you consider them as a friend persuading a friend, but the friend was God, and God was willing to change His mind about Sodom and the other 4 cities, if Abraham could have found a few honest men, but the doom went on as scheduled. God knew it would, but still gave Abraham the opportunity to change God's mind. Even though the outcome remained the same, it was counted as righteousness to Abraham.
God knew the outcome of the wrestling match with Jacob, and yet let it go on all night long, and counted it as righteousness to Jacob.
When there were only 8 human beings left on this planet, whose DNA had not been altered by demons entering humans and creating grotesque offspring, that God, in order to salvage man, drowned the grotesque mutations. The only thing left breathing were pure human and pure animal, and yet it grieved God so much to have to do it, that He vowed never to do it again.
God is mysterious. And yet if you realize that we are like Him, grief and joy and love, forgiveness, compassion, even changing one's mind allow us to understand our Father, our Daddy, our Abba.