I don't necessarily disagree. However, I am curious about using Jesus as our example. Correct me if I am wrong, but the orthodox position is that our Lord is two natures (divine and human) in one person, with no admixture of those natures. The sweep of emotion we see in him are human emotions, and I am inclined to think-if we keep with the orthodox position-those are due to his human nature. To whit, when he sweat blood in anxiety in the garden it was his human nature that was anxious, not his divine nature. When he wept it was his human nature. When he died, it was his human nature that died, right?
Or, is the position that he was human and divine with no admixture wrong? Or, maybe I am misunderstanding it?
Well, while I don't know how the spirit in a person and their heart are connected, I did learn something about differing reactions. One day innertubing I decided I could go over a low water dam on a river, since at age 12 I thought I was pretty invulnerable. There was a big undertow from the force of the waterfall pulling downward. I was sucked down underwater, which wasn't all new to me, since I'd been underwater in rivers before, but when I tried to swim straight up through the froth, I kept being sucked back down, and though I was a very good swimmer, I realized I probably needed to just leave the inner tube above and try to swim outward, and when I tried swimming up diagonally up away from the dam I did get to the surface, and so I thought now I could grab the tube and pull it away, but that wasn't so easy and I got sucked back down, and then 2nd time diagonally I could barely touched the tube before I was sucked down again, and then I tried leaving the tube, but there was a back current on the surface and I couldn't swim away because the water was so bubbly it is hard to swim in it, and I couldn't swim away, and soon went down again, so I became afraid. The question became: is it possible to get away from the dam even. Fear like that is a heart/body feeling. And then something pretty interesting happened, I was there on the bottom, about 8 or 9 feet down I think, and trying to think and noticed a part of me was just....watching. Almost like another person, but kinda so familiar, or constant, that part of me was like....someone watching, dispassionately, not affected. Connected. But not worried about...totally unconcerned about oxygen, death, time, just there, watching. So, it seems from that to me the spirit isn't affected by bodily emotions, but...somehow still the spirit is truly connected with consciousness it seems like. Someone observed something once like the soul is the result of the spirit residing in the body, so it seems like it does matter how the heart is -- we are not to be guided by the heart, but rather our hearts are to be changed for the better. But if the soul is the combination in some since of the self and the spirit, and the soul is also what is being saved. Maybe it's like when your soul is going the right way, then the heart is in the service it should be in, but the soul isn't fully independent of the heart, rather the soul/heart is being rescued. So....not sure, but it seems like a being as God creates us really is supposed to have a heart and a spirit, together, so that what we are 'conquering' (see gospels and revelation) isn't the heart, but the 'flesh', meaning the body trying to take over and be the ruler (mind being only a part of body). So I guess it seems like the answer is both ways: both feelings and transcendence of feelings. (we are made in His image, and He made us to have both)
This is a good point. It would be odd if heaven were full of joy, and yet there is God all stoic and unaffected.
He will walk among us.
1 Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,” for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. 2 I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. 4 ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”