Can god feel it?

Question

Can god feel the pain that we his creations suffer?
Does he have any feelings for us?

Answer 1

no,not at all.

Answer 2

maybe maybe not, does it/he/she care. maybe maybe not
maybe maybe not
I meditate to respect whatever it may/maybe not really be
if it indeed exists.
I have vast pro and con evidence. Any evidence found someone to be fueling thier virture or faith I find to be foolhardy. But what I do respect is the power of faith itself.
I just so happen to maintain a faithlike state without any pretenses or judgement. and a very basic healthy fear of god which all can agree with but some dont even match up to.
I dont believe in an afterlife, but I have no proof there is no such thing also. I think the idea of heaven and hell and being saved is very traumatic to introduce to people who are otherwise bumbling idiots about the cacophony of death for what it plainly and tragically is. It is a very sweet notion and indeed I am very sad when I lose someone, I wish there is a heaven and truly do not know of its existence.
Some would argue to you God's intentions with the pompousness even relating to assign it a sex such as HE or 'must be a he....and here's why' you hear this line of BS alot. But, really. to me, its just another secular myth no matter what your belief. I respect it because I know you have a faith and an emotional anchor to keep you from going off the deep end and give you vices and virtues and discipline.

Answer 3

Pain sorrow, success, these are not related to God but these are results of your own work. Even the poorest of the poor can be a multi-millionaire with his work, for example L N Mittal of Kolkata, he was from a poor family but now the International Giant in Steel Business,
Bikas Bhattacharya The Mayor of Kolkata, was born in a slum.

So it all depends upon your work and effort.

Answer 4

If there is something we can call God, then he created the universe, invented time (as he himself is infinity) ant made all the rules for the universe functioning (including genetics etc.)

In the christian approach, they say "god is infinitely good and infinitely powerful", which is a lie because if that was true ther would be no suffering at all on Earth (and in Jupiter, and in the black holes, etc. for that!)

Answer 5

I'll try to keep this short.
Depends on what faith you come from. From the Christian theology I personally believe that God is a physical God and also a passionate one, or else how could he have suffered for our sins? My belief is that while he doesn't feel physical pain since he rose from the dead, he remembers it and can still feel sorrow when we don't allow him to help us heal and grow.

Answer 6

I like your question because it shows your humanity. And God is Good so He has manifested Himself in the Humanity of Jesus so that it could be said with conviction that He is among us; thus the name Immanuel or God with us.

But if you are not a Christian, still I would say that your question is a nice one and sincere at that. We often understand things according to our nature, thus at times to express our thought better, we attribute to animals characteristics or even sentiments which are human simply because we can't live fully their nature but merely approximate it.

God on the other hand is transcendent. He is not a function of feeling or sentiment. But if an Almighty (whom we call God) created us human whom we appreciate in their goodness, then feelings, and all human attributes, coming from Him are never indifferent to Him.

Being perfect as He is.. --Having made man with feelings, --understand feelings much more than man on whom feeling is merely a gift.. He who is the Giver or better still the SOURCE knows the gift better than the limited recipient,i.e man. Since God is not Physical, but a Spiritual Reality, he can not physically feel. But the knowledge of physical pain is more real to him than to us.

And for Christians, he humbled himself to be a man, that as a man He shares man's pain, joy, emotion, disappointment, which is a reality beyond or imagination in Jesus.

Answer 7

I do not know whether He feels our pain or not. But I know that He knows about it. As per Hindu belief system, your pains and pleasures are as per your deeds in this birth or ealier. For all your deeds you will have to get reward ( in terms of pain or pleasure).
So actually you are clearing your sort of Bank Account. In this example God is the Chaiman of the bank. He knows you are an account holder but does not actually know how much is your balance. Nevertheless he can know it if He wants to.

Answer 8

If we are indeed his creations, then there is a piece of Him in all of us, and so I believe he may feel pain, but I don't believe He feels our individual pain, rather the cumulation of our negative emotions, hurt, sorrow, hate, anger, I also believe that these emotions are so rampant in our societies that it is causing all the pain we feel. It is responsible for the degeneration of our society.

But to actually answer your question logically, He created us, so He created our emotions, and if He created our emotions He must certainly feel them, otherwise how would He have known how to create them without ever feeling them Himself? And I also believe that He knew exactly what He was doing in creating them, especially the pain, hate and anger, because without struggling through those emotions we could never grow.

I don't know if you have ever heard the poem "footprints". It talks about one persons journey in life, how he grew and how when he looked back there were always two sets of footprints, but in the worst times of his life there was only one. So he asked God the question, "why in the hardest times of my life did you abandon me? Why did you leave me to walk alone" And God answered, about the lone set of footprints, "because they were the times when I carried you". Perhaps this was meant to mean that God carries all our burdens as he carries us in our faith.

Just a note tho, I have spent most of my life a disbeliever, never wanting to believe in the possibility of God, but my daughter fell ill when she was 3 weeks old and was not expected to make it, at the worst point, when she was weakest I started to pray, my whole family prayed, my friends prayed even strangers prayed in churches for her. A healing service was held for her, and the day after I began to pray I received a miracle, she began to get better. If God didn't feel my pain, why did he answer my prayers?

Answer 9

I dont know which God you are referring to as there are many but I am my own God and I feel my own pain and at times I empathize with others and feel their pain that I am familiar with and yes I do have feelings for others

Answer 10

Yes, he does. But what can he do? We are responsible for our pains. We must have done something bad that we are suffering today.

Answer 11

He does! Of course, if He can't feel physical pain then He will feel emotional pain for us.