God: The Presence of the Wholly Other Undeniably the Old Testament speaks of God as though he did undergo, at different times and in diverse situations, emotional changes of state, including that of suffering. However, I believe that such passages must be understood and interpreted within the deeper and broader revelation of who God is. While the Old Testament does not philosophically or theologically address the issue of God’s impassibility or passibility, it does provide the revelational context from which it must be examined. This context consists in rightly discerning the biblical notion of God’s transcendence and immanence. The manner in which God both transcends the created order and is present to and immanently acts within the created order will ultimately control whether he is impassible or passible. Now, within the Old Testament, it is precisely the very immanent actions of God that reveal the character of his transcendence. What then do these immanent actions reveal about the transcendent God?
Posted on: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 20:51:53 +0000
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