The Scriptures speak of God in human terms. In a figurative way, they attribute to God our human feelings and bodily characteristics. One of the strongest statements of human emotion attributed to God comes at the time of Noah and the Flood.

Voltaire used a sword that cut both ways when he sardonically quipped, “If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor” (Notebooks, c.1750). Even a casual reading of the Bible would seem to bear him out. In Sacred Scripture, God appears all too human. The examples are many. A few will suffice to make the point.