Abstract:
This article reflects on people’s presuppositions with regard to God’s mental health as it has
been recounted throughout history. The article asserts that the dominant report of a ‘sick
god’ has nothing to do with God at all, but is, instead, the manifestation of a sick projection
of people who are terrified of the unknown and the unpredictable in life. Such a projection
reflects their own fears, which they project upon their own mental image of the mentor who
they thought was God. The other, sound, report on God’s mental health has encountered
many difficulties in competing with the dominant report. The alternative report has met with
much resistance, because it seems so humanly unbelievable, in its claim that God is a God of
unconditional grace to all humankind.
