More than 150 gathered at four historic sites in Tennessee and North Carolina as the Church of God turned 125 on Friday, August 19, 2011.   The day was designed to mark the historic day with prayer and historical sketches at the remote locations of the beginnings of Church of God history. Among those participating was Dr. […]

Cleveland, TN–August 19 is the birthday of the Church of God. On this day in 1886, a small group gathered at a gristmill along Barney Creek in Monroe County, Tennessee—not far from the Coker Creek stop on the well-traveled Unicoi Turnpike.   Artist James Marshall’s depiction of the grist mill at Barney Creek (click photo […]

Cleveland, TN–Today, August 19, is the birthday of the Church of God. On this day in 1886, a small group gathered at a gristmill along Barney Creek in Monroe County, Tennessee—not far from the Coker Creek stop on the well-traveled Unicoi Turnpike. According to Dr. David Roebuck, director of the Pentecostal Research Center and Church […]

Cleveland, TN–“Pillars of Pentecost: Church of God History – Our First Fifty Years” is now open to the public at the Dixon Pentecostal Research Center on the campus of Lee University. Under the leadership of Chairman James E. Cossey, the Church of God Historical Commission and the Dixon Pentecostal Research Center produced and unveiled “Pillars […]

By Dallas Bogan (Reprinted with Permission. This article was published in the LaFollette Press) While many churches in the South had already established their existence and their doctrines, an invitation went forward to those who wanted to fully establish the readings and beliefs of the Bible as it was written. With this request a small […]

Sorry, I know bible scriptures that mention God repenting, and other verses about God Never repenting has been brought up a number of times on this site in order to harmonize/reason how the said verses can be taken as a whole withOut contradicting each other:

Is there a contradiction between 1 Samuel 15:29 and 1 Samuel 15:35?

Numbers 23:19 Says God doesn’t repent, Exodus 32:14 Says He repented?

Does God have regret or not in 1st Samuel 15?

However, I wanted to bring in the use of literary devices.

1 Samuel 15:29 says that God neither lies nor repents since He is not a man.

(1 Samuel 15:29)
29 And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent. KJV, ©1769

And yet, in 1 Samuel 15:35, it says that God indeed repented (for making Saul king over Israel).

(1 Samuel 15:35)
35 And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD repented that he
had made Saul king over Israel. KJV, ©1769

(Numbers 23:19 (KJV))

God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he
spoken, and shall he not make it good?

(Exodus 32:14 (KJV))

And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.

Could we say that the contradiction between the aforementioned could be associated with literary devices of hyperbole, figure of speech? In other words, for God to repent or to regret something to do with his actions is so disturbing to God Himself that is why Samuel says in 1 Samuel 15:29 that God “will not lie nor repent” ?