If God is superior to us, why does he have emotions like us? Aren’t emotions a human thing? For example, it is said that God is slow to anger. Why does he show anger? Would love some insight.
Properly speaking, God does not have “emotions.” Emotions are changeable and God does not change. Those passages of Scripture that attribute human emotions to God are attempting to help us better understand the mystery of God through anthropomorphism. However, once God the Son incarnated as the man Christ Jesus and assumed to himself a human nature, God the Son was capable as man of having and feeling emotion.
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