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.”47 In other words, God is well aware of our need for accommodation. Yes, he is impassible, but he is communicating to a world that is not. If that communication is to be meaningful, then he must convey truths through passible mediums, imagery emotional in nature. Otherwise, the door of
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