which would then be neither genuinely nor authentically human. If the Son of God experienced suffering in his divine nature, then it would be God suffering as God in a man. But the incarnation, which demands that the Son of God actually exists as a man and not just dwells in a man, equally demands that the Son of God suffers as a man and not just suffers in a man. Thus to replace the phrase “the Impassible suffers” with “the Passible suffers” immediately purges the suffering of all incarnational significance. . . . This is what humankind is crying out to hear, not that God experiences, in a
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