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[Prodigal_Son]

Jesus was not only God but man. As a human, He had emotion but not as God. Emotion requires a human body. As for the definition, just because you can understand another feelings does not mean you experience them. It does not mean you have emotion.

What would it be to understand an emotion? Well, consider: emotion is a type of affect. You cannot have discursive knowledge of emotions, and thereby understand them. You have to know what they’re like. This an experiential reality.

In the Incarnation – which is an eternal reality, not an event in time – God knows what it’s like to experience like we do. God made himself vulnerable to us, and vulnerable like us.

The way you talk about Jesus, it sounds like He is God trapped inside a man’s body. Otherwise, how could God not be experiencing emotion at the exact moment that man-Jesus is experiencing emotion? This idea reminds me of Nestorianism, which is a heresy.

 

[Aloysium]

But he hasn’t experienced suffering in his divine nature.

I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ,
the Only Begotten Son of God,
born of the Father before all ages.
God from God, Light from Light,
true God from true God,
begotten, not made, consubstantial with the Father;
through him all things were made.
For us men and for our salvation
he came down from heaven,
and by the Holy Spirit was incarnate of the Virgin Mary,
and became man.
For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate,
he suffered death . . .

I believe it to be true that God’s divine and human nature are one in Jesus Christ and that He experiences infinite beatitude, which cannot be diminished by His suffering, which reveals the depth of His love for us.

 

[Julie_de_Sales]

I found the answer to the question Does God experience suffering? in the book The apparent paradoxes of God by Father Descouvemont. In fact, it’s that, a paradox: God can suffer, he has an infinite compassion to our trails, but at the same time he is infinitely happy. The same thing applies to the saints, who participate at the compassion of God.
When Jesus died on the cross, only his divine nature suffered, and this is a dogma proclamed by the Church at the Council of Chalcedon in 451.

Here are some other quotes regarding this question:

By the incarnation in the womb of the Virgin Mary, the Son of God became mortal, but still immortal. He became weak, while remaining the Almighty. He became man while remaining God, this is the constant teaching of the Fathers of the Church.
*Just as we say that the body assumed by the Word is His own body, and we say that the sufferings of this body were properly his own, they do not reach in His divinity *St Athanase
*The Father Himself, God of the Universe, full of forgiveness and mercy, it is not true that he suffers in some way? *Origene
If God is impassible, he is not devoid of compassion, since nothing is more inherent in Him that to have mercy and forgive always. St Bernard
Relieved from suffering, they sympathize with ours. Their sensitivity is not reduced, it is transfigured St Bernard on the saints in heaven.

If you understand french, you could read the original article:totus-tuus.fr/article-31244927.html

 

[devoutchristian]

Julie de Sales:

When Jesus died on the cross, only his divine nature suffered, and this is a dogma proclamed by the Church at the Council of Chalcedon in 451.

No. That is a heresy.

 

[Julie_de_Sales]

No. That is a heresy.

My fault, I wanted to say human nature.

 

[adrift]

What would it be to understand an emotion? Well, consider: emotion is a type of affect. You cannot have discursive knowledge of emotions, and thereby understand them. You have to know what they’re like. This an experiential reality.

I had to look up discursive. It made me confused since the way you used it didn’t seem to have a connection with its definition:shrug:

In the Incarnation – which is an eternal reality, not an event in time – God knows what it’s like to experience like we do. God made himself vulnerable to us, and vulnerable like us.

What do you mean by vulnerable. This doesn’t make sense either.

The way you talk about Jesus, it sounds like He is God trapped inside a man’s body. Otherwise, how could God not be experiencing emotion at the exact moment that man-Jesus is experiencing emotion? This idea reminds me of Nestorianism, which is a heresy.

Reminds me of Patripassianism heresy.

 

[ellzeena]

Obviously you don’t know what circular reasoning is but you sure know a straw man.

I went through undergraduate school at a five star university in three years and through a Ph.D. program at an ivy league school in four. I know what circular reasoning is. And I’m done conversing with people who seem unable to contain their behavior within the boundaries of polite conversation.

 

[adrift]

I went through undergraduate school at a five star university in three years and through a Ph.D. program at an ivy league school in four. I know what circular reasoning is. And I’m done conversing with people who seem unable to contain their behavior within the boundaries of polite conversation.

:tsktsk: The fact is you were caught misquoting me and instead of admitting your mistake you compound it by calling me impolite. I guess we know who’s behavior is outside the boundaries and it is not me.