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The Affirmation of Divine Passibility: Its Compatibility with the Major Doctrines of the Christian Faith

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As a result of our critical examination of the validity of the basic assumptions for the doctrine of divine impassibility and some of the serious objections against the assertion of divine passibility in the light of divine empathy, we have concluded that the traditional idea of divine impassibility is largely based on a metaphysical notion of deity rather than the biblical idea of God. Therefore, we have rejected the impassibility of God as a sound doctrine of the Christian faith.

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Lee, J.Y. (1974). The Affirmation of Divine Passibility: Its Compatibility with the Major Doctrines of the Christian Faith. In: God Suffers for Us. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2048-0_4

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