ABSTRACT
Traditionally, scholars have dealt with paradox by saying that "God's transcendence is impassible, while God's immanence is passible God cannot suffer in himself but he can co-suffer; and God became human to be with us in our suffering". Many theologians question whether God of traditional Christianity possesses agentive functions, particularly love— in full bodied human sense of that word. The passibility of God created dynamic interplay of overture and response when resurrected Lord appeared to a gathering of ancient Americans as recorded in Book of Mormon narrative. In the face of passibility tidal wave, some traditional Christians still struggle with paradox of transcendent God on one hand and passible, suffering Christ on the other. Joseph Smith's First Vision and subsequent experiences revealed a God radically different from impassible, unmoved mover of traditional Christian theology. Today, Latter-day Saints and many mainline Christians are rejecting the "unblinking cosmic stare", of the philosophers' god, for the personal, passible God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
