| The Stoics ruled out divine passibility because they regarded imperturbability as a virtue, and God must be the supreme example of it. |
| In so doing it posited no questions about the suffering and passibility of God. |
| On the other hand, those who defend God's passibility by arguing that God is inherently temporal risk implying that sin, suffering, and evil are constitutive of God. |
| This raises intense debate about the passibility of God that falls outside the scope of this article. |
| Adams is not, however, inclined to rest her case for this point on divine passibility per se. |
