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[.. God does not have to choose between this and that. God never wonders what He should choose. Nor does God have a choice imposed on Him, nor does He not know what to do. God making "choices" is an oxymoron, an anthropomorphism, or stuffing God into our little human mindset box, which is what happens with literalist bible-reading...]

SO THEN, GOD CANNOT have preferences?.. preferring one thing in one situation and another, in another.. Basicallly GOD is a machine?.. You know like the chinese god.. that they pray to with mechanistic prayer on prayer wheels?.. A Robotic God..

So God cannot have qualia, desire, hopes, and preferrences?..
DAMN!!.. how can he be my friend?..

NOTE: Some things are literal and some things are metaphor, wisdom is in knowing the difference.. But you are correct.. some things biblically are metaphor.. maybe even most things.. but not all..

SO THEN, GOD CANNOT have preferences?.. preferring one thing in one situation and another, in another..

Is God susbject to "situations?" Is He 'caught" up in the storm or is He the maker of a storm?

Is he wondering if He should go right or left?

So God cannot have qualia, desire, hopes, and preferrences?..

That's right. God is not sbject to passions; Christ did not suffer and die in His divine nature.

God does not hope because He is in control and He knows the outcome. He doesn't hope that you will be saved or won't be saved; He knows. Faith is hope. God has no reason to have faith.

God wills what He wills – and what He wills happens. He doesn't chose based on hope or possibilities. God is impartial, so as far as His dealings with people are concerned, He is absolutely neutral as nothing we can do is something He needs, nor can God be bought with bribes and flattery.

DAMN!!.. how can he be my friend?..

He is not your friend. He is your God.