Yeah. It always puzzled me. Like. I know and feel my grandmothers emotions (hers rather than mine as a reflection of hers) because I know her in person. My other grandma not so much. The spirits (ancestors and earth) not really because they are spirits they arent people who can smell, taste, and feel sensations (tactile).
So, I can assume how the spirits may feel. I can interact with them and say "thry feel X because my response was related to X" but those are highly personalized assumptions. Logically, I dont know my ancestors on a person basis because I wasnt born.
Likewise, how can any believer quote how god feels since he, like my ancestors, are not present (physically) ans the only way we know about them is either through sacred text or in my case wise tales from my family and census records.
Its personal, yes. However, to use those specific words "feel", love, anger, jeleousy, etc goes beyond our own spiritual sensations. Its defining the emotions of a spirjt of someone we only know y everything but by actual experience.
Like falling in love with someone you never met over seas. You known each other for yeara. She sends you letters. Then she passes away. You can associate feelings to her when she was alive because she had a body, but to use those same words for a spirit (different nature) is like using a spoon to cut a pizza.
I believe that when we become spirits, we still have a "body" -but a different and better one -powerful and invulnerable....
Php 3:21 Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
...and also that we are made in the image and likeness of God, so we can somewhat understand -by considering our own experience, composition and function -how God might "feel".
The Word -who became flesh as Christ -also did so in order to experience things as we do -in order to more effectively intercede on our behalf.
Isa 53:3 He is despised and rejected of men;
a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Isa 53:4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
Isa 53:5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
Heb 7:24 But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood.
Heb 7:25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
Heb 7:26
For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
Heb 7:27 Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.
