Emotions and Affections of GOD
I am looking to find out what GOD feels in HIS DEITY state, not what HE feels in the human state like Jesus.
I hear that GOD can feel emotion, in fact, HE can feel many emotions.
He can feel anger/wrath, hate, love, patience, and a lot more I perhaps know nothing about.
What I really want to know most is -- can GOD cry or feel sorrow or pain? As a DEITY, not a human. I know that Jesus felt pain and cried when HE was in a human body but that is not what I am looking for. I am looking to uncover what GOD felt before and after HE was in a human body, before and after the crucifixion. As DEITY.
And I also need help with a series of verses I find to be contradicting:
Galatians 5:19-21 -- 19Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Revelation 2:6 -- But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitanes, which I also hate.
Exodus 32:10 -- Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.
It says hatred and wrath is a work of the flesh, but GOD feels anger and wrath too. In Exodus 32:10 he allows HIS wrath to be worked up, but in other verses it says be ye angry and sin not, let not the sun go down on your anger -- and also somewhere in the Bible it says that a man who angers quickly is foolish. So why does GOD allow HIS anger to be built up? So in that sense are hatred and wrath not only a work of the flesh but also a work of GOD to feel that way?
Isn't that a contradiction?
I am looking to find out what GOD feels in HIS DEITY state, not what HE feels in the human state like Jesus.
I hear that GOD can feel emotion, in fact, HE can feel many emotions.
He can feel anger/wrath, hate, love, patience, and a lot more I perhaps know nothing about.
What I really want to know most is -- can GOD cry or feel sorrow or pain? As a DEITY, not a human. I know that Jesus felt pain and cried when HE was in a human body but that is not what I am looking for. I am looking to uncover what GOD felt before and after HE was in a human body, before and after the crucifixion. As DEITY.
And I also need help with a series of verses I find to be contradicting:
Galatians 5:19-21 -- 19Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Revelation 2:6 -- But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitanes, which I also hate.
Exodus 32:10 -- Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.
It says hatred and wrath is a work of the flesh, but GOD feels anger and wrath too. In Exodus 32:10 he allows HIS wrath to be worked up, but in other verses it says be ye angry and sin not, let not the sun go down on your anger -- and also somewhere in the Bible it says that a man who angers quickly is foolish. So why does GOD allow HIS anger to be built up? So in that sense are hatred and wrath not only a work of the flesh but also a work of GOD to feel that way?
Isn't that a contradiction?