This is not my writing, it was written by Mike Bickle from his study in Song of Songs…..

The Christian paradigm of God is founded on the revelation of God’s deep emotions of love. The revelation of God as a tender Father and a passionate Bridegroom was a new idea in religious history (see William Barclay’s commentary on Heb. 4).

In Jewish tradition, what was most emphasized about God was that He is holy in the sense of being totally separate from sin. They did not think of a holy God as sharing human experience. They thought of God as incapable of sharing it simply because He is God. In other words, they saw God as being “above” sharing the human dilemma by the very definition of being God.

The Greek philosophers saw God as emotionally distant from humans. The most prominent Greek thinkers were the Stoics. They saw the main attribute of God as being apatheia, by which they meant God’s inability to feel anything. They reasoned that if God felt something, then He might be influenced or even controlled by what He felt. They argued that those who felt sorrow or joy were vulnerable to being hurt and, thus, controlled by those they had feelings for. They believed that anyone who affected God’s emotions would be greater than God for that moment. The Epicureans (a school of Greek philosophy) believed that the gods lived detached in eternal bliss. They lived in the intermediate world and, thus, were not aware of events occurring on earth. They were, therefore, totally detached from human affairs as they lived in great happiness.

The Jews understood God as a holy God separated from humans; the Stoics, a feelingless god; the Epicureans, a detached god. Into this context of religious thought came the totally new idea of the Christian God who deliberately subjected Himself to human emotion, pain, and weakness.
Jesus came as the One who embraced human experience and was therefore, sympathetic.