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    Sin robs God's happiness — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Lex Talionis supports ECT

    Sin robs God's happiness

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    • 1.God desires humanity's flourishing; sin causes suffering that God experiences as a loving parent witnessing their children's self-harm.
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    • 2.God's happiness depends partly on creation reflecting divine goodness; sin corrupts that reflection and diminishes the intended beauty.
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    • 3.An omniscient God knows all sin past, present, and future; this knowledge of willful rejection of divine love would naturally cause grief.
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    • 1.Classical theology defines God as immutable and impassible—incapable of being affected by external events, including human sin.
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    • 2.Ascribing emotional vulnerability to God seems anthropomorphic; it projects human emotional fragility onto a transcendent being.
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    • 3.If God's happiness could be diminished by sin, God would lack self-sufficiency—a core attribute of deity in most traditions.
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