Impassibility (from Latinin-, "not", passibilis, "able to suffer, experience emotion") describes the theologicaldoctrine that God does not experience pain or pleasure from the actions of another being. Some theologies often portray God as a magnified human being subject to many (or all) human emotions and imperfections: for example, in the Hebrew Bible Yahweh is portrayed as experiencing anger, jealousy, and disappointment, and in Greek mythsZeus is portrayed as experiencing lust. Ancient Greekphilosophers like Aristotle and Plato challenged these ideas and introduced the concept of God as a perfect, omniscient, timeless, and unchanging being not subject to human emotion (which represents change and imperfection). The concept of impassibility was developed by medieval theologians like Anselm and continues to be in tension with more emotionally satisfying concepts of God.
Some theological systems portray God as a being subject to many (or all) emotions; in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, however, it is understood that God is not subject to sin.
The concept of impassibility was developed by medieval theologians like Anselm and continues to be in tension with more emotional concepts of God.
The glorious bodies are not said to be impassible by the removal of this kind of passion, since nothing pertaining to perfection is to be removed from them.
The reason of this is that whatever is patient is drawn to the bounds of the agent, since the agent assimilates the patient to itself, so that, therefore, the patient as such is drawn beyond its own bounds within which it was confined.
Moreover, according to this, impassibility could not be one of their gifts, because it would not imply a disposition in the impassible substance, but merely an external preventive to passion, namely the power of God, which might produce the same effect in a human body even in this state of life.
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