Closeness with God

Have you ever wondered what God’s inner emotional life might be like? Within Christian thought, there are conflicting answers to this question. The majority of theologians throughout history have said that God cannot moved by creatures feel anything. does not literally empathy, mercy, or compassion. Instead, only feels pure undisturbed happiness. This view is called divine impassibility. In the 20th Century, and large came reject understanding in favour passibility which affirms can creatures, Yet 21st Century has seen a renewed interest more historical God. How Christianity two radically different portrayals puzzle, sure, but one I shall try address here. my unpacking these conceptions God, briefly offering reasons for affirming passibility. discuss centre around central theme within thought—the goal entering into close, personal relationship with start defining some key terms, then proceed offer arguments first problem knowing well, second based on human desire empathy.