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    God exemplifying pain in this analogical, non-identical s... — Carmelics
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    Supports→God must exemplify pain.

    God exemplifying pain in this analogical, non-identical sense satisfies the grounding requirement without making God a patient of brute unintelligible suffering.

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    • 1.Analogical predication preserves divine transcendence while maintaining meaningful connection between God's nature and creaturely suffering.
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    • 2.God can understand pain's intrinsic character through exemplification without undergoing its phenomenological burden or passivity.
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    • 3.This framework honors both theistic constraints (divine impassibility) and soteriological intuitions (God's intimate knowledge of suffering).
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    • 1.If God's pain is merely analogical, it's unclear how this provides genuine solidarity with or intelligible comprehension of actual human suffering.
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    • 2.The distinction between 'exemplifying pain' and 'experiencing pain' risks becoming merely verbal, obscuring rather than resolving the metaphysical problem.
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    • 3.Grounding theodicies require demonstrable divine participation in suffering's reality, not just conceptual knowledge of its structure.
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