• Author(s): Kevin DeYoung
• Date published: April 7, 2020
• URL: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/kevin-deyoung/is-jesus-weeping-for-us-in-heaven/
• Tags:
  • impassibility
  • heaven
  • coronavirus
• Date accessed: April 9, 2020

Over against NT Wright’s article, which challenges divine impassibility, Kevin DeYoung outlines why God isn’t crying over us in heaven. The two most persuasive reasons I found at the time of writing are that it would make heaven into a state of grief rather than joy, and that the language of God’s grief in the Bible is always expressed over our sin, rather than other things, such as the coronavirus.

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