“I find this an interesting, though ultimately baffling, answer to the question. I understand Paul to be saying that “dialogue, real dialogue,” is impossible between two persons unless both are mutable; if one is not capable of change, then it’s only “make-believe” dialogue that can take place between them, not “real” dialogue. If we now add to this thesis about dialogue—which seems to me eminently correct—Paul’s thesis that God is immutable, then it follows that, on Paul’s view, there can be no genuine dialogue between God and human beings. Nonetheless—this seems to be his view—it was indispensable to God’s achievement of “his purposes for his people on whose behalf he intervenes in time” that the people believe that they were engaged in genuine dialogue with God.”