God is love Quote by Thomas Talbott

““An answer commonly given is that through suffering Jesus was perfected in his role as savior ; 254 and though that seems right as far as it goes, one should not, I would argue, minimize the implication in the text that Jesus’ sufferings somehow made him more complete or whole. F. F. Bruce has asked: “If the Son of God is the effulgence of his Father’s glory and the very impress of his being, how can he be thought of as falling short of perfection?” 255 The answer depends upon the kind of perfection in question. If the essence of God is love, if God is now in the process of creating additional persons to love, and if God himself suffers along with his suffering children, then there is a personal sense in which not even God, despite his metaphysical perfections, is now complete or whole or “all in all.” For in no loving relationship can the one who loves be complete or whole until the one who is loved is also complete and whole; in that respect, the process whereby the children are reconciled and made whole is also a process whereby the Father is completed and made whole in his relationship with these very children.””

— Thomas Talbott