The above question is predicated on a series of assumptions and belief systems. Among which; that God is a Being that exists, and that this Being has a physical body capable of experiencing emotions and feelings. Feelings can be defined as an emotional state or reaction. The sense by which a person knows whether things are hard or soft, hot, or cold, heavy, or light · A sensation of temperature or pressure. Feeling is a general term for a subjective point of view as well as for specific sensations.
In normal language usage, the noun “feeling” is often used as being the same as emotion. However, in psychology, feeling is used as a technical term which means a generalized bodily consciousness of a physiological sensation. A feeling is a particular sensation or an emotional perception or attitude. Feeling is defined as the sense of touch or something experienced through touch or emotion. Feeling, in psychology, the perception of events within the body, closely related to emotion. An awareness by your body of something in it or on it sensation; an emotional state or reaction. Feeling was originally used to describe the physical sensation of touch through either experience or perception.
There are four kinds of basic emotions: happiness, sadness, fear, and anger, which are differentially associated with three core affects: reward (happiness), punishment (sadness), and stress (fear and anger). Emotion can be defined as, a complex experience of consciousness, bodily sensation, and behaviour that reflects the personal significance of a thing, an event, or a state of affairs. “Emotions,” wrote Aristotle (384–322 BCE), “are all those feelings that so change men as to affect their judgements, and that are also attended by pain or pleasure. Such are anger, pity, fear, and the like, with their opposites.” Emotion is indeed a heterogeneous category that encompasses a wide variety of important psychological phenomena.
Some emotions are very specific, insofar as they concern a particular person, object, or situation. Others, such as distress, joy, or depression, are very general. Some emotions are very brief and barely conscious, such as a sudden flush of embarrassment or a burst of anger. Others, such as long-lasting love or simmering resentment, are protracted, lasting hours, months, or even years (in which case they can become a durable feature of an individual’s personality). An emotion may have pronounced physical accompaniments, such as a facial expression, or it may be invisible to observers. An emotion may involve conscious experience and reflection, as when one “wallows” in it, or it may pass virtually unnoticed and unacknowledged by the subject. An emotion may be profound, in the sense that it is essential to one’s physical survival or mental health, or it may be trivial or dysfunctional. An emotion may be socially appropriate or inappropriate. It may even be socially obligatory—e.g., feeling remorse after committing a crime or feeling grief at a funeral.
Delving into Scriptures, that is if the reader believes in the veracity of Biblical accounts; in Genesis 6:5-6; The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time. The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. In addition to the previous text, in 1 Samuel 15:10-11; Then the word of the Lord came to Samuel: “I regret that I have made Saul king, because he has turned away from me and has not carried out my instructions.” The following texts from the Scriptures were all about God’s anger: Deuteronomy 9:8; Exodus 15:7; Exodus 32:10-11; Numbers 11:1-2; Job 4:9; Isaiah 13:5; Jeremiah 32:29; Lamentations 2:2; Numbers 32:13; 2 Kings 13:3; Isaiah 51:20; Ezekiel 7:8; Habakkuk 3:12; Mathew 21:12-13; Isaiah 13:9; Daniel 8:19; Mathew 3:7; Romans 2:5; Jeremiah 7:29; Deuteronomy 31:17; 2 Kings 17:18; 2 Kings 23:25-27; Psalm 78:59; Psalm 89:38; Lamentations 2:6-7.
Earlier, feeling was described as an awareness by your body of something in it or on it, sensation; an emotional state or reaction. The Scriptures in three places told us that God wept, shed tears; John 11:35; Luke 19:41; and Hebrews 5:7-9. This article poses questions that the reader has to answer, among which are; the veracity of the Scriptures, the existence of God, the possession by God of a physical body capable of experiencing emotions and feelings. Life is not lived with words, but with actions and therefore experiences. Behaviour, attitude, environment, and character, all of which plays a role in life, of everyone including God, if you believe that He exists.
