Afterthought
Puritan Board Senior
God is blessed forever. That means that He is perfectly satisfied and forever in enjoyment of Himself--"profoundly happy", as it were--correct? Does God feel happiness, contentment, satisfaction, and enjoyment, or is this a figurative accommodation for us to understand Him by? If it is an accommodation, is there another way to understand His eternal blessedness, e.g., we can understand emotions predicated of God in the Scriptures as volitions?
To clarify my questions further, it seems some will affirm divine impassibility but do so by saying God is eternally blessed and "feels" happy and satisfied, and so feelings of sadness or anger or discomfort would contradict that fact. I'm trying to understand whether such is the case or not: whether God has no "feelings" whatsoever, or one eternal "feeling" of happiness, enjoyment, satisfaction. (I think those who affirm the latter tend to say God is "impassible" but not "impassive"?)
I guess related to this would be: Does God have dispositions? That is, has He decreed to voluntarily "emote" or "feel" in a certain way with respect to His creatures actions as they take place according to His decree?
To clarify my questions further, it seems some will affirm divine impassibility but do so by saying God is eternally blessed and "feels" happy and satisfied, and so feelings of sadness or anger or discomfort would contradict that fact. I'm trying to understand whether such is the case or not: whether God has no "feelings" whatsoever, or one eternal "feeling" of happiness, enjoyment, satisfaction. (I think those who affirm the latter tend to say God is "impassible" but not "impassive"?)
I guess related to this would be: Does God have dispositions? That is, has He decreed to voluntarily "emote" or "feel" in a certain way with respect to His creatures actions as they take place according to His decree?
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