Post B2TmL5FT4I4M5ivmQS by SuperLutheran@poa.st
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(DIR) Post #B2TmL5FT4I4M5ivmQS by SuperLutheran@poa.st
2026-01-20T14:45:30.952007Z
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In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them;in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.-Isaiah 63:9So there are theo-nerds who occasionally like to toss around the term "impassibility" and apply it to God. The prefix "im" meaning no and "possible" coming from the Latin 3rd declension "Passio," meaning suffering. The idea goes that since God is infinite and invincible, He never suffers pain.But the theologians take it too far when they say that this applies to emotional matters. They believe God does not actually get angry or sad or distressed when witnessing the horrible things that happen here on earth. In fact, if you press them on it they eventually confess that they see God as some buddha-esque figure that remains in an emotional *blank* for all eternity. Now, the Scriptures say nothing of the sort, but our sophists like to defend their claim by saying that the Bible presents "anthropomorphic" language for God's activities and dispositions. For them, it's not that God is angry at sin, but when the Bible tells us He is it just means that we interpret His actions as being associated with anger. Yes my friends, these people are really willing to put their hermeneutics in the wood chipper to preserve an emotionless deity.But even a single verse like this one from Isaiah shows us how wrong headed such theobros are. God feels. He pities. he loves, and the Second Person of the Trinity even sympathizes with our own pains, having experienced them Himself. Since personhood consists of mind, will, and emotions, God has all of these *perfectly.* If you deny emotions on the part of the Godhead, then you deny any motivation He has to do what He does...like save us. Scripture attests that He loves us after all, and without an emotional and characteristic disposition of love from our Lord then there is no salvation.So let us praise God who is invincible, but also has a heart.
(DIR) Post #B2TmovWRnItAc76Sjg by madcuzbad@nicecrew.digital
2026-01-20T14:47:56.490436Z
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then what the heck does it mean every time the old testament God is like "my anger is kindled hot against them"
(DIR) Post #B2TmowtWgywaryuPLc by SuperLutheran@poa.st
2026-01-20T14:50:52.741529Z
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@madcuzbad Exactly, that's why I'm saying those theobros are wrong
(DIR) Post #B2Tn3UQIpXWKuYAo1g by madcuzbad@nicecrew.digital
2026-01-20T14:53:14.584182Z
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I just don't understand logically why if he were an emotionless being he'd have even bothered creating us and all that is in the first place
(DIR) Post #B2ToezdNqqUoNYjrO4 by madcuzbad@nicecrew.digital
2026-01-20T14:56:45.793340Z
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I was told or I just assume it was love that inspired God to create us afterall
(DIR) Post #B2TonWRHle8oRE9ATQ by BowsacNoodle@poa.st
2026-01-20T15:13:04.153711Z
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@madcuzbad @SuperLutheran >loveIt’s a pretty good explanation for why we have free will as well. God didn’t want us to be robotic slaves, and theological beliefs that can’t survive that premise tend to have other problems.
(DIR) Post #B2TpdHgpqkJLkj6OjQ by King_Noticer@poa.st
2026-01-20T15:22:25.579841Z
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@BowsacNoodle @madcuzbad @SuperLutheran Soemtimes I wonder whether I’m better off with the free will, I certainly don’t use it to make the right decisions :bocchibreakdown:
(DIR) Post #B2TqXQAxUEA6HtxapU by Thickasabrick@poa.st
2026-01-20T15:32:34.353785Z
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@King_Noticer @BowsacNoodle @madcuzbad @SuperLutheran been there....