Claim. SMM teaches that God’s suffering since the Fall has been continuous and unbroken — not a glorious judge enthroned in glory but a parent who has endured misery throughout every age of human history without relief.
Elaboration. The claim is stated starkly: “All Christians think that the all-knowing and almighty God sits on His throne as the Lord of lords and everything proceeds according to His command. But in fact how very miserable God has been at finding Himself constantly alone” (2.2.-god-has-been-miserable-throughout-history, 170-95, 1987.11.8). Elsewhere: “God is the most miserable of all in the world” (ibid, 232-114, 1992.7.3).
The continuity matters: not sometimes miserable during catastrophes, but consistently so — “for tens of thousands of years, even millions of years, God has cried out for us, ‘My son and my daughter!‘” (ibid, 184-219, 1989.1.1). The endurance of providential history is explicable only through love: “It is not because He is all-knowing and almighty. It is because He has been walking the path of love” (ibid, 109-281, 1980.11.2).
This extends and personalizes the claim in csg-throne-judge-god-incoherent (which shows the logical incoherence of the throne-judge picture) by adding the affective dimension: God is not only not on the throne — He is actively, continuously grieving. The distinction between logical critique and experiential testimony is worth tracking in threads.
See also. csg-throne-judge-god-incoherent, csg-god-is-personal-with-intellect-emotion-will