IDK if this seems like an irrelevant question but I ask this because I've seen and heard ppl say (paraphrasing) God doesn't need this or that but we all know God doesn't need anything, he wants and wanting is an emotion or part of feeling; isn't it? And if feeling and having emotion makes us human, does being emotionless make us God- like? If God does feel and have emotion, could it be like the way we humans feel and have emotions?
This is my view and understanding from scripture.
We all know from experience, that anything we design is based on some "prototype". We don't come up with things out of thin air.
So, the fact we have emotions at all, tells me there is a "prototype" somewhere.
The Bible tells us that we are God's progeny.
Acts 17:28, 29
28 For by him we have life and move and exist, even as certain ones of the poets among YOU have said, ‘For we are also his progeny.’ 29 “Seeing, therefore, that we are the progeny of God, we ought not to imagine that the Divine Being is like gold or silver or stone, like something sculptured by the art and contrivance of man.
Here the scriptures show that we have no good reason to imagine that God is like stone, or wood, because we are his progeny - made in his image. Genesis 1:27
So based on this, I can only come to the conclusion that God has feelings. In fact, if he did not, he would not be as the Bible describes him - a God merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loyal love. just and upright, compassionate... Neither would Jesus be that way. In order to be empathetic, and pity someone, one must feel, and Jesus surely felt pain. He wept tears wen he felt the pain of others.
If Jesus, then how much more so God, who created Jesus, and who is greater?
So, Yes, God feels. He is happy, and he feels hurt.