Does God have feelings?

Question

I've just asked if God might have felt lonely before He created us... and someone told me I was being disrespectuful for assigning Him a human feeling.

Would that mean that God doesn't experience any of the human feelings?

I am not trying to be disrespectful. Unless my ignorance is some kind of it.

Answer 1

You're not being disrespectful of God. Since God created us in His image then it is logical to assume that He has the same emotions that we have. We know from the Bible that He is a jealous God, that He can be angry, that He feels love and that He's vengeful. So, I'm sure He can feel loneliness too.

Answer 2

The Holy Spirit thinks and knows (1 Corinthians 2:10). The Holy Spirit can be grieved (Ephesians 4:30). The Spirit intercedes for us (Romans 8:26-27). The Holy Spirit is God, the third “Person” of the Trinity.

Answer 3

Yes God does have feelings, far greater and more in depth than we'll ever understand.

Before God created us, God was perfectly self sufficient, and joyous. He needed nothing, and He needs nothing. We were created out of God's overflow of goodness and kindness to share His attributes that we may enjoy Him forever.

God experiences emotions. He gets angry, heartbroken, anguished. He is Joyous, completely happy, content. He weeps with those who weep, he comforts the afflicted.

The bible tells us that Jesus Christ is God in the flesh who came from God the Father to save Humanity. Open the book of John and look at the life of Jesus, and you will see the emotions of Jesus and the compassion He had. Then read Matthew and see His anger at sin and pride.

Jesus said if you have seen me you have seen the father. Look at Him and you will see God.

Answer 4

God is love. How is it possible to love without having an object of that love? In the Bible God expresses hurt against His chosen people when they rebel against Him, delight in those who follow Him, hatred of divorce and hypocrisy, jealousy of objects of idolatry which lure us away from Him and many other feelings which we associate with our human form. We are created in God’s image. We are told to have the mind of Christ. Inevitably, then, God has feelings – as we do – but all of them good.

Answer 5

You are asking a wonderful question, and yes God does feel. Jesus knows actually how we all feel and came to earth to teach us. Never feel that you can not talk to God about anything. I am glad you put this question down, God wants a relationship with us and loves us so much which requires alot of feelings, don't you think.

Answer 6

That's a great question, and the answer is yes he does.

Proverbs 27:11 "11 Be wise, my son, and make my heart rejoice, that I may make a reply to him that is taunting me."

Psalm 78:40 How often they would rebel against him in the wilderness, They would make him feel hurt in the desert! 41 And again and again they would put God to the test,
And they pained even the Holy One of Israel.

Answer 7

I think that God feels happy sad and sometimes mad because if he didn't feel happy why would he smile from ear to ear and why would he weep when his son was hung on the cross if he couldn't feel sad and what about when he got mad at cain cause cain killed his own brother. so yes I think God has feelings.

Answer 8

God has emotions and you are not being disrespectful! that's ridiculous He made us in his image all through the Bible it shows Gods emotions.

Answer 9

Of course God has feelings. We have feelings and we were made in His image. It grieves God when we sin. He becomes angry at gross disobedience, like when the Israelites made the golden calf to worship. He is pleased when we accept Jesus as Savior.

My desire is to please Him by trying to live as Jesus taught..

Answer 10

He's a jealous god(assuming you were referring to the biblical god), so that counts has a feeling.