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    Divine feeling of creaturely pain is not numerically iden... — Carmelics
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    Supports→God must exemplify pain.

    Divine feeling of creaturely pain is not numerically identical to creaturely pain but is an empathetic prehension that transforms suffering into redemptive experience.

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    • 1.Divine omniscience requires God to apprehend all suffering with full immediacy, not mere abstract knowledge.
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    • 2.Empathetic response to suffering can genuinely transform its meaning without denying its reality or pain.
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    • 3.Non-identical prehension preserves divine transcendence while enabling authentic divine compassion toward creation.
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    • 1.If divine feeling genuinely transforms suffering into redemptive experience, the original suffering seems diminished rather than honored.
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    • 2.Claiming empathetic prehension is non-identical to actual pain appears to avoid rather than solve theodicy's core problem.
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    • 3.Undefined metaphysical categories like 'empathetic prehension' risk obscuring rather than clarifying divine-creaturely relations.
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