God and pain

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If God knows everything, He can’t learn anything. Therefore even the experience of being rejected by creatures cannot bring new knowledge to Him. He knows that necessarily, not from experience, and also separately, apart from His contingent choice to create. Now, everything in creation is good because it is sustained by God. Evil is a privation. Evil emotions are not entities. They have an existence as an experienced feeling, but not as a being. Pain as well. Now God can see a chair and know it is not perfect compared to Himself. He can see a dog with three legs and know it is imperfect in comparison to its form. However, how can God know what pain feels like until He experiences it? How can He know what it feels like to be in pain without learning it?
 
The problem is that you are limiting God to time. As if God had to wait till Jesus suffered and died on the cross to know pain. To God everything is present, there is no past or future.

Not to mention that in multiple NDE’s they talk about being able to feel the pain they caused others by their actions and the pain that their actions made Jesus feel.
 
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How about something that Jesus didn’t experience such a sexual pleasure?
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Since I am neither, I would say go ask God.

Other than that, God knows everything, the end.
 
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