Double Barrel BB
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Does God have emotions? Please explain your answers.
Just curious on others thoughts....
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Just curious on others thoughts....
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StriperAddict
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I can't check off either since people are created in the image of God and have emotions like God does, not the other way around. What I mean by that is God's love is the purest love, his anger is perfectably justified, and when His heart breaks over sin, there is no human equivalent. All that we are comes from being His creation, and when redemption comes to us through Christ, we then have a glimpse at the true nature (and emotions) of our Heavenly Father. But our emotions won't near those in eternity until we see Him face to face.
Tn_Extreme
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He gets angry
Grieved
loves
He laughs
Scorns
rebukes
His emotions are based on his love for us in a spiritual sense...whereas, most of our emotions are not.
Grieved
loves
He laughs
Scorns
rebukes
His emotions are based on his love for us in a spiritual sense...whereas, most of our emotions are not.
GeauxLSU
Senior Member
I also am not sure which one to check (I thought at first the choices would be yes/no) since for example, per scripture, God has been 'angry'. Obviously humans experience anger. I just don't know that any human emotion is not influenced by our sinful nature so ..... I believe while God may experience emotions the 'same' as we TITLE them, they are not experienced the same way. This may just be an issue of symantics and/or I may just be attempting to say what Striper Addict has already said. 
Double Barrel BB
Senior Member
From a sermon I read online.....
you can find the whole sermon here:
http://www.spurgeon.org/~phil/articles/impassib.htm
We must begin by acknowledging that we are all too prone to think of God in human terms. "You thought that I was just like you," God says in Psalm 50:21. "I will reprove you and state the case in order before your eyes" (NASB). "My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts" (Isaiah 55:8-9). Again and again, Scripture reminds us that the affections of God are ultimately inscrutable (cf. Ephesians 3:19; Romans 11:33)
you can find the whole sermon here:
http://www.spurgeon.org/~phil/articles/impassib.htm
We must begin by acknowledging that we are all too prone to think of God in human terms. "You thought that I was just like you," God says in Psalm 50:21. "I will reprove you and state the case in order before your eyes" (NASB). "My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts" (Isaiah 55:8-9). Again and again, Scripture reminds us that the affections of God are ultimately inscrutable (cf. Ephesians 3:19; Romans 11:33)
Double Barrel BB
Senior Member
Our Emotions = From a sinful creature, cannot be Pure and Holy.
God's Emotions = Have to be Pure and Holy.
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God's Emotions = Have to be Pure and Holy.
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StriperAddict
Senior Member
It just needs to be said that redeemed emotions are far better than those that are not, even though they don't match those of God. We are "new creations" in Christ, and need no shame with our emotions as we walk the walk of faith.
For instance, "Be ye angry and sin not", a good example of how God desires us to be fully human... "be angry" but strive for the right reaction... "sin not". Jesus came so that we would see what God was truely like walking on earth, and as His human life was carried out, pleasing the Father, He used everything, emotions and all, to turn the world upside down.
For instance, "Be ye angry and sin not", a good example of how God desires us to be fully human... "be angry" but strive for the right reaction... "sin not". Jesus came so that we would see what God was truely like walking on earth, and as His human life was carried out, pleasing the Father, He used everything, emotions and all, to turn the world upside down.
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