What Does Change Mean for God?

[Ask Mr. Religion]

Concerning the doctrine of immutability, give your definition of change, and explain how it is that God can change in relationship:
A. within the Trinity, and
B. with His creatures.

God does not become different in some particular (i.e., change).

God is eternally the same in all that He has revealed to us in His general and special revelations.

God does not change in His relations to His creatures.

God’s creatures change in relation to Him. We love God, He loves us with His unchanging love. We hate God, His wrath burns with an unchanging intensity.

God the Father has eternally loved the Son and the Spirit with His unchanging love. In fact, the eternal Trinitarian love of God is the primary reason why a Trinitarian view of God is the only proper view of God.

AMR