Tumah
Veteran Member
There is no question that it contradicts his unchanging-ness (which is a product of His oneness). If today he has this motivation and tomorrow that one, that is clearly a change.I cannot agree with this. If God has no emotions then what motivates him to act? The only thing I know that acts without emotion is a robot - and the robot only does so because it was programmed to do so.
Now I can agree that we may not always understand the exact emotion God is feeling when he does any particular thing - (E.g. when a parent prevents their child from going to a club a child may think the emotion that caused the refusal is hate and selfishness; and there is a good chance the child is wrong) - but to say he has no emotions and that having emotions would mean that it violates his characteristic of being unchanging is wrong in my opinion.
G-d is unfathomable on any level. The fact that we can't attribute motivation or any sort of emotion to Him, doesn't mean that we can understand Him as being like a robot because a robots lack of emotion is fathomable. He neither has nor lacks emotion. The concept of emotion is simply not relevant to Him on any level, neither in the positive or the negative. G-d is the first. He precedes emotion just as much as he precedes time and space.
The fact that I don't understand G-d whatsoever doesn't bother me. He's the Infinite Simple Creator. I'm a tiny finite creation of many multiples. To expect me to have some inkling of Him is even crazier than expecting an ant to understand quantum mechanics. What is true, is that we need some sort of translator device that works between us so that we can have any sort of relation to Him. And for that He created these "lenses" with act on His "Will" to give us the perception of different concepts by G-d that we can relate to.