[OBW]

I will be the first to declare that the simple statement "God never changes" is not so simple. Where it is found in scripture has a context. "Yesterday, today, and forever . . . " is not an absolute, context-less statement. God changed his mind several times. And was talked-down from a course of action on more than one occasion (one that he had the right to take).

But saying that does not open God up for presumptions of changes that are not actually stated or supported by the scripture.

The Father did not "become" the Son. The Son did not "become" the Spirit. I'm getting tired of people like Drake and Evangelical trotting out the same miss-readings of scripture and not even acknowledging the holes in their logic. And the prior understanding tends to dismiss their errors as just that — error. All of these errors by the accountant and the child prodigy are evidence that real theologians (and a lot of them) need to be part of any discussion that pretends to change the understanding of the scripture and of God. Especially after 1,900 years. If it is "new" it is almost certainly not valid. Instead, it is more likely a system of error.

I could argue the same for dispensational theology. I grew up in, and still "live" within a dispensational way of dealing with scripture. But because of its relative newness, and its questionable source, I have a hard time being a very good dispensationalist. Evangelical? Generally "yes." Dispensational? Not so much.