So why, then, did God choose to employ emotional language to describe himself in Scripture? Is he tricking us into believing something of him that he is not? “It is certain,” Calvin answers, “that God is not subject to any human passions, yet He is not able sufficiently to manifest either the goodness or the love that He has toward us, except by transfiguring Himself, as if He were a mortal man, saying that He would take pleasure in doing good to us.”
