Episode 32, Impassibility and Passibility, Part 1 with Tasia Scrutton
The Reluctant Theologian Podcast
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Is There a Being Who Suffers Eternally?
No one usually wants to say god suffers eternally b but no, no. And and i think nicholas walterstorf pince points out, if you have an eternally suffering god, then the blessedness of people who end up in heaven is really because you're not looking at this wonderful vision of a blessed god. You're actually looking at this perpetually suffering being. Oh, and that's even presupposing that it's coherent to say that there's a being who suffers, but without duration. Rigt, my deari suffering seems, even if it's just a milly second, it seems to suggest some sort of duration, some sort of experienceal experience over
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