I

God’s disposition and His essence are immutable. Changes in His name and His work do not prove that His essence has altered; in other words, God will always be God, and this will never change. If you say that the work of God is unchanging, then would it be possible for His six-thousand-year management plan to come to an end? You only know that God is forever unchanging, but do you know that God is always new and never old? If the work of God is unchanging, could He have led mankind all the way to the present day? If God is immutable, then why is it that He has already done the work of two ages? His work never ceases to move forward; it means His disposition is gradually revealed to man, and what’s revealed is His inherent disposition.

II

In the beginning, God’s disposition was hidden from man, He never openly revealed His disposition to man, and man simply had no knowledge of Him. Because of this, He uses His work to gradually reveal His disposition to man, but working in this way does not mean that God’s disposition changes in every age. It’s not that God’s disposition is always changing because His intentions are always changing. Rather, it is that, because the ages of His work are different, God takes His inherent disposition in its entirety and, step by step, reveals it to man, so that man can know Him. But this is by no means proof that God originally has no particular disposition or that His disposition has gradually changed with the passing of the ages—such an understanding would be fallacious.

III

God reveals to man His inherent and particular disposition—what He is—according to the passing of the ages; the work of a single age cannot express God’s entire disposition. And so, the words “God is always new and never old” refer to His work, and the words “God is immutable” refer to what God inherently has and is. Regardless, you cannot make the work of six thousand years hinge upon a single point, or circumscribe it with dead words. Such is the stupidity of man. God is not as simple as man imagines, and His work cannot linger in any one age.

from The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. The Vision of God’s Work (3)