Has God ever apologized?

[Jim Kelley]

God is perfect and cannot make mistakes, hence, no apology.

Wasn't Michael the 3rd member of the Creation Godhead who came as Adam and transgressed and fell?

What if part of the terms and conditions of Adam being redeemed is to repent of what He did wrong?

This is the first time I have heard the term "the 3rd member of the Creation Godhead" as pertaining to Michael The Archangel.

Actually this is the first time I have heard of "the Creation Godhead."

I would be interested if you have a reference for this term and connection to Michael?

Bro. Jim

[Jim Kelley]

I am amazed at people on this site who get all twisted up about stupid ideas like this. There are important things to ponder and this isn't one of them.

Since we are all on different journeys and have walked different paths, we have all progressed and have learned differently. This might be something others are curious about since they haven't yet learned it - though it might seem trivial and stupid to you. Maybe a better option for you, would be to go ponder those things you are interested in, and leave others alone to learn what they are pondering. Then you won't be burdening yourself with this stupidity, nor will we have to be bothered with the thing you clearly haven't overcome yet.

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I imagine God has apologized before. First, we believe that "as man is, God once was". So if he was a mortal like us, he certainly had life experiences like we all do, and grew up to become what he is now. I imagine he would have learned the arts of compassion and caring and repairing mistakes - that sometimes warrant apologies.

Also, I have been comforted by God in my life, and I've understood things like "I'm sorry this is so painful", so I suppose that could be an apology of sorts, but maybe not what you mean.

So my opinion is yes, I think he has. He probably doesn't have a whole lot to apologize for at this point though, he's grown up a lot from his days as a dumb mortal.

Where is that like button?

[Jim Kelley]

God is perfect and cannot make mistakes, hence, no apology.

I think your answer is correct and has merit however, even a perfect being can feel sorry for another and express sorrow which is a form of saying I am sorry which is a form of an apology.

I think God will express He is sorry for some of the things we have had to endure in this life however, He will say, "Know thou...that all these things shall give thee experience" (D&C 122:7).

Actually D&C 122 seems to be an apology from God to The Prophet Joseph Smith in the sense He is sorry for Joseph.

Bro. Jim

[Joel]

The church doesn't apologize:




So maybe this was an act of God?

[djinwa]

I am amazed at people on this site who get all twisted up about stupid ideas like this. There are important things to ponder and this isn't one of them.

Since we are all on different journeys and have walked different paths, we have all progressed and have learned differently. This might be something others are curious about since they haven't yet learned it - though it might seem trivial and stupid to you. Maybe a better option for you, would be to go ponder those things you are interested in, and leave others alone to learn what they are pondering. Then you won't be burdening yourself with this stupidity, nor will we have to be bothered with the thing you clearly haven't overcome yet.

One of the very most basic concepts of true religion is that God is infallible. If he is not we are all lost. What good does it do to bring up a question like Him apologizing? This is not a line of thought that will strengthen anybody and might well start the destruction of someone's testimony. There are some great discussions on this site but there are too many questions that seem to me to arise from a spirit of apostasy or blind wandering in directions that do not edify. This is one of them.

I think you say what you feel is true and let the chips fall where they may. If your testimony is based on only pre-selected info that "edifies" it is going to be weak. How long can you live in fear, with head in sand, hoping you don't hear the wrong stuff?

I like questions like this, as the answer has led me to worry less about trivial matters. If you make a list of all the ways you are to please God, and try to do it all, you will be exhausted and depressed. In my mind, God may be perfect, but He isn't as involved and keeping score as much as we think. I mean, we are to waste His time blessing food that is perfectly fine, while somewhere a child is being raped and tortured?

[log]

Has God ever apologized?

Genesis 6:6
6 And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

Don't look too closely at it, tho.

[freedomforall]

Amos 7

1 Thus hath the Lord God shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings.
2 And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord God, forgive, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
3 The Lord repented for this: It shall not be, saith the Lord.
4 ¶Thus hath the Lord God shewed unto me: and, behold, the Lord God called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part.
5 Then said I, O Lord God, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
6 The Lord repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord God.

Jonah 3:9,10
9 Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
10 ¶And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.

Does this answer the question?