@georgia there are Christians who do exactly this and claim that it is by God's subjection of himself to suffering in Christ that people's lives can no longer be divided from each other or from the life of God, such that only love is viable

@georgia but the most common Christian view throughout history is that God is impassible, and that Christ's suffering is only according to his human nature

@georgia i became and remain a Christian because of theopaschism. i believe in the God who empties himself completely and forfeits his own being for the sake of love. that emptying and forfeiting is who he is and he can do no other. he leads me to live in the Spirit so i can see what he is always doing in Christ: taking on our flesh, in its mortality, and rendering our vulnerability and death inseparable from the love which created the world

@georgia i don't totally know how to translate this into the language of impassibility and simplicity. people have different definitions of impassibility and i do not reliably understand them

God suffers and dies because he gives everything he has and is to his Son, who takes on mortal flesh with all its blood and nerves and nociceptors, and suffers and dies. God in the abstract doesn't have, like, distinct suffering parts. he is not a being among beings. but he has them because we do

@georgia everything in our fallen creation is taken in the end by death and decay. it goes to the dust, it is frittered away like a garment. you and i both shall die, and in the meantime our finitude leads us to be judged corrupt, weak, vulnerable, and vain. our condition is the negation of the invincible and eternal. this negation is negated, not rescinded, when the eternal and invincible goes to the Cross, so that everything taken by death is transfigured by love.

@georgia this is not the position of christianity inherently, but it is a position that comes out of christianity. i think the view of how God relates to creation is quite different in other religions and generates other conclusions, which i am very interested in preserving because i believe strongly in multiplicity for reasons that are compatible with the view i hold in the first place; nevertheless, within that multiplicity this is my view