“Jesus Christ is [eternally changeless, always] the same yesterday and today and forever.” [Hebrews 13:8, AMP\
Have you truly thought about this verse? No… I mean to the point that you really believe, accept, and ACT on what this implies! Do you read scripture in light of this verse? Do you realize that the entire Bible is about Jesus and Who and What He was and continues to be and it begins in Genesis 1:1 and doesn’t end till Revelation 22:21 (and not just His human time found in the Gospels)? An ‘interesting’ study would be to read the Word based on changelessness and apply this to what is said.
Next add these 2 verses:
“What then shall we say to all these things? {verses 28-30} If God is for us, who can be [successful] against us?” [Hebrews 8:31, AMP]
“God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do it? Or has He spoken and will He not make it good and fulfill it?” [Numbers 23:19, AMP]
Obviously there are other verses that confirm the scripture in Hebrews but these are sufficient to reinforce the changelessness of the Lord. Is the issue more of not really know how to respond to changelessness? Especially when you consider the world we live in that seems to change every second? Wouldn’t changelessness be an attribute to highly value? Or maybe it’s simply that we are applying a spiritual reality to our natural world?
So is the question more of how do we understand and apply changelessness? I believe that our understanding really helps define how we read scripture. If we start from the premise that ALL scripture is divinely inspired then what is said is what is. If we don’t begin from this framework, foundation then does scripture become more impermanent? Personally I believe it is impossible to be a Christian with an impermanent foundation. Scripture truly has to be infallible, divinely unchanging because otherwise we use our finite minds to determine our understanding. We can have it both ways.
The bottom line is really that when you begin to read scripture [which has been spoken by a spiritual being (God) to spiritual beings (us)] that we can begin to understand scripture from a changelessness perspective. If God said it then it is an ‘is’! Granted we want to understand but the point is that it is use it as our standard, regardless of our understanding. Too simplistic? Why? Isn’t changelessness the solid foundation? Exactly what would you replace it with?
