such actions bring about emotional changes of state within him. Moreover, for God to be passible means that he is capable of freely changing his inner emotional state in response to and interaction with the changing human condition and world order. Last, passibility implies that God’s changing emotional states involve “feelings” that are analogous to human feelings. . . . God experiences inner emotional changes of state, either of comfort or discomfort, whether freely from within or by being acted upon from without.7
