Emotions Of God - 3

Way too many Christians are working under the mistaken impression that God is stoic, that God feels little or no emotions. Some Christians think that God has and expresses emotions, but they are almost exclusively emotions of anger and disappointment. Unfortunately, our modern English translations often use fairly innocuous words to translate Hebrew words that are rich is describing emotions.

This teaching looks at several Hebrew words in the Old Testament that describe emotions and, then, finds scriptures that make those emotions clear and find scriptures that associate those emotions to God. Finding quotes in the New Testament of scriptures from the Old Testament that contain these words that describe emotions, then gives us a clue about which Greek words in the New Testament correspond to those Hebrew words.

Through the Bible we see God experiencing and expressing emotions that include pity, sorrow, emotional pain, grief, compassion, and anger. Some of these emotions are described in the most intimate of terms. Empathy seems to be an emotion that is a common thread running through many of God’s emotions. Empathy means that God feels the emotions that we feel, and the emotional pain associated with those feelings often causes God to act to alleviate that pain.

Visit our website at www.cecmessiah.org.