Many who affirm that God exists also believe that God is personal in some sense. Being personal is often associated with having a mental life that involves emotions. Does God have emotions? If so, which emotions does God have? As you are pondering these questions, consider how your answer makes you feel. Does the idea of an emotional God make you feel happy or sad? Do you feel comforted by the thought that God understands what it is like to be you? Perhaps you want a God who can say, “I feel your pain.” Of course, the idea of an emotional God might disturb you. As you reflect on your own emotional state, or the emotional state of others, you might hope that no deity could be like that. Maybe instead, you are comforted by the thought that God is completely beyond all emotional states. These are interesting issues, and the history of philosophical theology is divided over how to think about them. Traditionally, these issues have centered on a debate between those who believe that God is impassible and those who believe that He is not.