(8) We are to distinguish in the doctrine of free will what is good politically from what is good theologically 149-150. b. These words are wrongly understood by the Jews and sophists 151. * How we should view the discussions of philosophers in regard to God and divine things 152. c. These words should be understood as spoken not only of the people before the flood, but of all men 153. 2. The Words, "It Repented Jehovah." a. How the repentance of God is to be reconciled with the wisdom and omniscience of God. (1) The way sophists answer this question 154. (2) Luther's answer 155-157. * How man should treat questions which lead us into the throne of the divine majesty 158. * How the passages of Scripture are to be understood which attribute to God the members of a human body 159. * Whether the Anthropomorphites were justly condemned 159. * Why God is represented to us as if he sprang from the temporal and the visible 161-163. * We cannot explore God's nature 163. * In what pictures God reveals himself in the Old Testament, and in the New 164. * The will of God in signs and the will of God's good pleasure, "signs" and "Beneplaciti." (a) How we can know God's will in signs 165-166. (b) Why we cannot know the will of God's pleasure, nor fathom it 165-166. (c) What is really to be understood by the will in signs 167. b. The way the schools explain these words 168. c. How they are to be rightly understood 169. * Disputing about God's majesty and omnipotence places man in a dangerous position 169-171. * How man should hold to the signs by which God revealed himself 171. * What the will of God's pleasure is, to what it serves and how it is revealed in Christ 172-176. * The will of good pleasure of which the fathers speak cannot comfort the heart 175. * The only view of the Godhead possible in this life 176. d. In what sense it can be said that "it repented Jehovah that he had made man" 177. IV. THE REPENTANCE AND GRIEF OF GOD BECAUSE HE HAD MADE MAN. A. The Repentance of God. Vs. 5-6. _And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented Jehovah that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart._