To talk in that fashion is not to speak of a
kind of meaningless re-enactment of what went on in the creation; it is to speak of a vital, living, and ongoing movement, where God knows and experiences (if that
word is, as I believe, appropriate to the divine life) that which has taken place, but knows it and experiences it with a continuing freshness and delight — and, if what has taken place has been evil, with a continuing tinge of sadness and
regret — such as must be proper to the chief creative and chief receptive agency who is worshiped and served by God's human children.