From theologian Norman Geisler at Jonh Ankerberg Show:
Persons have mind, will, and feelings. Androids have only mind and will, but no feelings. Open theists and others sometimes object to the classical view of God by claiming that if God is impassible then He cannot experience feelings like love and joy. In short, it makes God into an android, or more properly, a theandroid. However, classical theists, including Thomas Aquinas, do not believe that God is without feeling but only that He has no changing passions (feelings). God is a simple and unchanging Being and, as such, He experiences no changing passions. Hence, in his comments on Ephesians 4:30 (”Grieve not the Holy Spirit…”) Aquinas says, this phrase could be called a “metaphorical expression” because “The Holy Spirit is God in whom there can be no emotion or sorrow” (Commentary on Ephesians, 191). For God cannot be “provoked to wrath” (ibid.).
However, this is not to say that God cannot have unchanging feelings. This is clear from Aquinas’ comments on whether God has love. He rejects the objection that because love is a passion that God cannot have love by affirming that “We must need assert that in God there is love” (Summa Contra Gentiles, I.90). More.
Not clear why Dr. Geisler thinks androids have free will. In any event, open theism inherits both the problems of theism and those of naturalism, with no clear way to decide between them. In the current culture, over time, I suspect that the open theist drifts comfortably toward naturalism, with no clear line to cross. (O’Leary for News)
See also: “We are effectively androids, though made out of carbon”?
Silicon Valley religion: “The final end of science is the revelation of the absurd”
Dan Brown: AI Collective consciousness will replace God
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Math prof asks Rob Sheldon: But how do we know that it isn’t a conscious machine?