The Impassibility of God

Classic Christian orthodoxy teaches that God is impassible — that is, not subject to suffering, pain, or involuntary passions. In the words of the Westminster Confession of Faith, God is "without body, parts, or passions, immutable." The doctrine of the passibility of God has to do with the theology of the “suffering” of God. Does God suffer? Can He truly feel emotional pain?

"Those who predicate any change whatsoever of God, whether with respect to his essence, knowledge, or will, diminish all his attributes: independence, simplicity, eternity, omniscience, and omnipotence. This robs God of his divine nature, and religion of its firm foundation and assured comfort." (Bavinck, Reformed Dogmatics, 2:158)

Does God feel our pain?

Web Page by Mark Baddeley

Immutability and Impassibility: Essential Truths in an Uncertain World

Web Page by David Schrock

Does God Suffer?

Audio/MP3 by Matthew Barrett, Thomas G Weinandy

An Unchanging God and a Changing World (1)

Web Page by Rev D Patrick Ramsey

Modern Opposition to Divine Blessedness

Web Page by Fred Sanders

Holy Grief

Web Page by Chris Donato

Does God Experience Emotional Change?: Immutability and Impassibility

Web Page by Samuel Renihan

Immutability and Impassibility (MP3)

Audio/MP3 by Reformed Brotherhood

Undying Love: In our suffering, we find comfort in God's impassibility

Web Page by J. Todd Billings

Is Impassibility Really Biblical?

Web Page by Charles J. Rennie

Why I no longer believe in a passible God

Web Page by Craig Carter

What is Impassibility?

Web Page by James M Renihan

Does God suffer?

Web Page by Paul M Smalley

Can an Impassible God Love?

Web Page by Thomas G Weinandy

A Dangerous idea: God Suffers

Web Page by Matthew Barrett

God without weakness

Web Page by Paul Helm

Impassibility in the Church Fathers

Web Page by Gerald Bray

On Divine Impassibility: Carl Trueman Talks with Father Thomas Weinandy

Web Page by Carl Trueman

Does God Have Emotions?

Web Page by Wyatt Graham

Is Jesus Weeping for Us in Heaven?

Web Page by Kevin DeYoung

Nine statements on divine impassibility and the cross

Web Page by Wyatt Graham

Does God have feelings?

Web Page by Donald McCleod

The Immutability and Impassibility of God

Web Page by Matthew Barrett

God Never Sweats it: Impassibility

Web Page by Stephen Unthank

Hope for a Suffering World: Divine Impassibility

Web Page by Matthew Barrett

God Without Passions

Web Page by James Dolezal

On the Affections of God

Web Page by Curated Resources

Divine Impassibility and the Mystery of the Incarnation

Web Page by Craig Carter

Pleasing the Impassible God

Web Page by Lee Gatiss

Of the Attribution of Passions & Affections, Anger, Fear, Repentance unto God

Web Page by John Owen

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