How can someone who is all knowing and all powerful do something that they'd later regret?

In the bible it said God regretted making humans and wanted to flood the earth to destroy all living creatures. That's confusing to me because how could a perfect and all knowing being do something that they'd later regret?

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SomeMichGuy · M

The Job & the first 11 chapters of Genesis are the oldest parts of Scripture, proper, and so most likely to contain mythic elements.

Check out standard scholarship on this, not random videos as other users suggest.

BibleData · M

@SomeMichGuy Standard scholarship? Which teaches higher criticism and the documentary hypothesis? What about scholarship independent of that and prior to the 19th century?

SomeMichGuy · M

@BibleData You do you.