Was Jesus "apathetic"? If Jesus feels with us and for us, can God be an impassive, unmoved deity? From: Presbyterian Record | Date: April 1, 2000| Author: McLelland, Joseph C. | COPYRIGHT 2000 Presbyterian Record. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Here's the problem put in a logical form:

God cannot suffer (i.e., be moved by affections as humans are);

Jesus Christ was divine; therefore Jesus could not suffer.

This season of "Passion" puts the hard question to us: if Jesus is "truly God" as the creed states, how could he have "suffered under Pontius Pilate"? The technical term for God in orthodox theology is "impassible"; in Greek, "apathetic." The prefixes im- and a- signify negation: divini...

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