Sympathetic God?!

P.T. Forsyth again:

"...There is little doubt that the sympathetic tendency is the more popular today...But a God who is merely or mainly sympathetic is not the Christian God. The Father of infinite benediction is not the Father of an infinite grace...But what we need much more to-day is a caution against anthropopathism, or a conception of God which thinks of Him chiefly as the divine consummation of all our human pity and tenderness to man's mischief, bewilderment, sorrow, and sin. A being of infinite pity would not rise to the height of the Christian God....We must have a sympathy that can not only help but save, save to the uttermost, save for ever, and not only bless but redeem. Nay, far more, we must have, for the entire confidence of faith, a sympathy that has redeemed, and already triumphs in a conclusive salvation...Even a loving God is really God not because He loves, but because He has power to subdue all things to the holiness of His love, and even sin itself to His love as redeeming grace. A sympathetic God is really God because He is a holy, saving, redeeming God; because in Him already the great world-transaction is done, and the kingdom of His holy love already set up on His foregone conquest of all evil." (p. 32, 33)

See earlier posts for source.