It is a dogma of the faith that God is completely self-fulfilled. And it is insulting to God to claim that he needs to feel bad in order to care about us. The Church condemns anthropomorphism.
When you address me in this manner, you are essentially calling me a heretic, worse, a blasphemer of the Holy Spirit. This self fulfillment of which you speak now contains us and the rest of His creation. Once set into motion, we/them/it became part of Him. It is not insulting to God: JESUS felt bad, JESUS wept (even for Lazarus, whom He knew He was about to raise!), JESUS said when we see HIM we see the FATHER. He did not say, “Well I’m in human form and the Father is self fulfilled so what can I tell ya…” “Dogma” of the church - your misinterpretation of that dogma, which is extremely complex.
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“As in the East Activity is a task or property of something else and energy does not stand alone (there is no activity, energy by itself (per se). The “being” and “the action(s) of God” without the distinction, then would appear identical, leading to the teaching of Pantheism.[67][68] This removal of distinction meaning that the universe or material world and God are one and the same.[65] For God’s action (creation) and God’s being or essence is one and the same in actus purus and not the result of his creating activity. This leads to the denial of the transcendent and apophatic, incomprehensible definition of the essence of God. By stating that God’s being and energies are the same thing, one is stating that God in Trinity is the same as man (i.e. created or a creature as part of creation, anthropomorphic in contrast to theanthropic),[69] meaning that man as a finite being would be able to conceive the infinite, and that mankind could be God in essence (implying pantheism), as man is a creation of God, as an activity an act of God.[70][71][72]”
Eastern Orthodox - Roman Catholic Theological Differences
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To extinguish anthropomorphism from Human thought/action is tantamount to extinguishing psychological aspects of complete and normal brain and mind as these contribute so heavily to our nature that, without them, we cease to be Human.
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“Anthropomorphism is a natural and strong human way of trying to make sense of the world. Some embrace it, consciously or unconsciously. But it can interfere with the search for truth, and needs critical detachment to prevent its limiting control of thought or belief. Critics who seek to eliminate anthropomorphism entirely should acknowledge the difficulty of knowing nature and ultimate reality behind the images of unconscious mythic dramas. Psychological personification and meditative wisdom point beyond literalism and abstract rationalism to poetic and pre-linguistic experiences that may ring with echoes of a far but near power.”
Lee W. Baley, Ph.D.
Professor David E. Leeming
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Here is the definition of anthropomorphism:
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Merriam-Webster dictionary:
"Definition of ANTHROPOMORPHIC
1: described or thought of as having a human form or human attributes (anthropomorphic deities)
2: ascribing human characteristics to nonhuman things (anthropomorphic supernaturalism)"
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Jesus shows us what God the Father is like. He shows us the Father’s love, his compassion and mercy, his righteousness, humility, authority, words, work and truth — even his glory. In Jesus Christ, the Father is made visible so that we can know him. We worship a Father who is very much like his Son.
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“Although the Father is greater than the Son, they are also one. They have a reciprocal relationship: the Son is in the Father, and the Father is in the Son. Jesus brings glory to the Father, and the Father gives glory to the Son. The Son testifies concerning the Father, and the Father testifies concerning the Son…”
What the Gospels Teach Us About God
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So beware the words that pass through your fingertips and any such judgment you make upon another. I am neither a blasphemer nor a heretic. I am the mouse on the space station, as are you. The designer of the space station is so far beyond my comprehension as to make it totally impossible, even though he left me “food for thought” (pun intended) in a copy of the design left on the counter top. I barely understand/know myself. I barely comprehend the space station around me, I do so only insofar as it relates to me (and, if human, that is anthropomorphic). I cannot design a space station; I cannot describe the genius who built it.
Jesus is the only way we know anything at all about the Father outside of the Old Testament which is allegorical, as you must know. We speak of the Trinity and we may have some sort of intuitive comprehension of it from our Human standpoint (anthropomorphic), but this, too, is fully beyond our ability to comprehend, which is why it is called a “mystery”.
If I raise chickens and love them as companions/pets (not for food), I watch them hatch, I watch them grow, I feed them and protect them (as Jesus tells us the Father does for us), if the fox gets into my hen house how can I not suffer? If I am so empathic, and much greater than I is God Almighty, then how is it possible I have such abilities He does not have? If He is, as you suggest, the self fulfilled, unfeeling “man in the sky”, why then we are all wrong, Jesus was wrong, what other conclusion is there to make? And pretty much these are conclusions made by other religions, and that, my friend, is blasphemy and heresy.
Let us refrain from judging one another. I thank you for that.
