Gericke, Jaco W.2014-11-042014-11-042012Gericke, J.W. 2012. What is it like to be a god?  A philosophical clarification of instances of divine suffering in the Psalter. Verbum Et Ecclesia (Skrif En Kerk), 33(1), Art. #700, 6 pages. [http://www.ve.org.za/index.php/VE]1609-99822074-7705http://hdl.handle.net/10394/12186There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce. (Mark Twain) In philosophy of religion, there is a long history of belief that divine reality is immutable, although this has changed recently. In this article, the author takes a closer look at what some texts in the Psalms assumed about what it feels like for a god to suffer mentally. By paying attention to what is presupposed in language about negative divine emotions, the nature of mental anguish in the life of a deity is elucidated from examples in the text in which Yhwh is said to have states of mind involving anger, hate, compassion, jealousy and grief.Article