not” (Mal. 3:6). This no man can say, in that both lacking perfection and having hidden potentialities, man both changes and is in need of continuing change. Man grows and regresses. God, on the other hand, does not change, and, being omnipotent, can declare His word and bring it to pass. Hence the challenge issued through Isaiah: “Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.” God, being omnipotent and totally self-conscious, can