Full Idea
If God has sensation he is altered, …so he is receptive of change, including change for the worse. If so, he is also perishable, but that is absurd; therefore it is absurd also to claim that God exists.
Gist of Idea
God's sensations imply change, and hence perishing, which is absurd, so there is no such God
Source
Sextus Empiricus (Against the Physicists (two books) [c.180], I.146)
Book Reference
Sextus Empiricus: 'Against the Physicists/Against the Ethicists', ed/tr. Bury,R.G. [Harvard Loeb 1997], p.79
A Reaction
[compressed] It is certainly paradoxical to think that God is eternal and unchanging, but also capable of perception and thought, which necessitate change. Some theological ingenuity is needed to explain this.
Related Idea
Idea 22737 An incorporeal God could do nothing, and a bodily god would perish, so there is no God [Sext.Empiricus]