 Against traditional theism , Cobb has also denied the idea that God is immutable ( unchanging ) and impassible ( unfeeling ) . Instead , he stresses that God is affected and changed by the actions of creatures , both human and otherwise . For Cobb , the idea that God experiences and changes does not mean that God is imperfect — quite the contrary . Instead , God is seen as experiencing with all beings , and hence understanding and empathizing with all beings , becoming " the fellow sufferer who understands . " Cobb argues that this idea of God is more compatible with the Bible , in which Jesus suffers and dies . 
