and behold, a voice from heaven said, “This is my beloved Son, toward whom I am disposed in exactly the same immutable way as aways, which the Holy Spirit will naturally inspire Matthew to render as `well-pleased', because that is the very best anthropomorphism We can come up with given that we don't actually experience emotions.” (Matt 3:17, Annotated Impassibilicist's Bible)
It is a good thing to learn early that God and suffering are not opposites but rather one and the same thing and necessarily so; for me, the idea that God himself suffers is far and away the most convincing piece of Christian doctrine.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison
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