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1 posted on 08/01/2014 1:47:03 PM PDT by MNDude
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The answer to your question depends on one’s point of view. Here is what Jesus said about it: “You heard me say to you, ‘I go away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I go to the Father; for the Father is greater than I.” (John 14:28 RSV)


32 posted on 08/01/2014 3:42:48 PM PDT by zot
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God, by definition, is immutable, unchangeable, eternal (outside of time) and simple (no parts). God can’t “process” stuff because that would violate eternity. God can’t “feel” stuff either. God and His will are one and the same. So the ? doesn’t make any sense.


34 posted on 08/01/2014 3:57:50 PM PDT by Repulican Donkey
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The man Jesus died.. The Son of God was God and did not die. Jesus was man of very man and God of very God. We can not understand this in our human minds but the Son who is God in the Trinity did not die.


35 posted on 08/01/2014 4:04:36 PM PDT by Ramonne
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The classical answer to your question, and really the only satisfactory answer if one holds anything like the Orthodox understanding of God, is that God, in His Divine Essence, is impassible — only the Son, by virtue of His assumption of our human nature in the hypostatic union can properly be described as suffering, grieving, or otherwise exhibiting emotion (a human, rather than a divine quality).


36 posted on 08/01/2014 4:37:14 PM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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cause the Father to grieve

I have serious doubts you have the slightest notion of how absurd your query is.

You are asking finite humans like yourself to apprehend the mind of an infinite God. The definition of folly if there ever was one.

If you wish to amuse God, tell him of your plans.

38 posted on 08/01/2014 6:20:28 PM PDT by MosesKnows (Love many, trust few, and always paddle your own canoe.)
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My question is, did the death itself of His son cause the Father to grieve as well?

he way I see it, the real grief came from the first-time-ever separation between God the Father and God the Son due to Jesus taking on sin for the first time. On the cross, He cried out, asking why His Father had forsaken Him. Sin separates us from the Father and Jesus had just experienced sin at a really extreme level - all sins, past/present/future - talk about a giant crowbar rending them apart. Caused them both more grief than ever before and probably ever again.

48 posted on 08/02/2014 2:28:19 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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God can't experience emotions or be moved in His divine nature, since he is pure act and possesses all perfections.

To complicate things, while God is three Persons, the three Persons each fully possess the single nature of God. This is a deep mystery. But we can know from this fact that where one Person acts, all three act, even though Scripture may speak of one specific Person acting in various passages.

57 posted on 08/02/2014 4:16:56 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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So, where did the game, “three-card monte” come from?


59 posted on 08/02/2014 4:32:18 PM PDT by RedHeeler
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