Timeline for Who is our Savior: God or Jesus?
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| Oct 11, 2021 at 4:51 | comment | added | Brian McCutchon | Heb 4:15 is about how Christ, due to the incarnation, has personal experience of our infirmity. It has nothing to due with whether he or the Father can experience emotion in their divinity. (Christ can, of course, still experience emotion in his humanity.) And emotion is not necessary in order to be kind or generous or even to love. Emotions are changing, but God's love is permanent. Moreover, emotions are irrational, but God has perfect reason. | |
| Apr 19, 2021 at 10:33 | comment | added | Dottard | @BrianMcCutchon - I do not subscribe to an emotionless unfeeling God. God is love and kind and generous and is "touched with the feelings of our infirmities" | |
| Apr 19, 2021 at 3:10 | comment | added | Brian McCutchon | God loves, but not according to emotions, so no, he does not "feel" love. Neither does he feel anger or grief, for God does not change (James 1:17). See Impassibility. Scripture, however, frequently uses anthropomorphic language when speaking about God, speaking as though he has emotions in order to communicate some other truth to us, like how bad our sins are. | |
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| Apr 18, 2021 at 20:54 | comment | added | Dottard | @BrianMcCutchon - are you suggesting that God does not feel love (1 John 4:8, 16) nor anger and grief(Gen. 6:6; Ex. 4:14)? | |
| Apr 18, 2021 at 18:31 | comment | added | Brian McCutchon | "these events pierced the heart of the Father" -- that sounds like a form of Patripassianism, which I think most Christians reject, as God cannot suffer. | |
| Apr 18, 2021 at 0:55 | history | edited | Dottard | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 18, 2021 at 0:37 | history | answered | Dottard | CC BY-SA 4.0 |