. . . on the doctrine
of eternity, God’s having an assumed human nature is not something true of God
at some times but not at others, rather it is something of characteristic of
God always in the limitless eternal now. God is therefore never in the
state of not having an assumed human nature. For this reason, the human
capacity for suffering is something that is never not characteristic of God, in
the human nature whose assumption is never absent from God. (Eleonore Stump, Atonement [Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2018], 134)
