Are Humans God ?

[Quintessence]

Deification of humans is not uncommon in the world's cultures/religions. Something "becomes" a god the moment a human decides to deify that thing - it designates something worthy of worship, usually because it is greater-than but the reasoning can be legion. The most common form of deification of humans is ancestor worship, where one pays respects to one's progenitors and honors them for without progenitors oneself would simply not exist in this-time and this-place (as such, they are greater-than).

 

[LuisDantas]

If so then why and if not then why ? I personally think that humans are becoming more powerful than God Therefore making us God Like.

Anyone is free to call whatever they want a god, although there are people who feel very unconfortable with that.

Myself, I don't find the terminology useful nor advisable. Too vague yet too overvalued, therefore too abuse-prone. Worse of all, there isn't nearly enough care to deal with the consequences of that abuse.

All gods - or more properly, all god-conceptions - are ultimately human creations and are as meaningful as us humans make them to be, down to whatever degrees of contradiction, confusion and abuse come with those meanings.

So I guess I have to ask you what do you mean by humans being more powerful than god or god-like.

 

[Bthoth]

If so then why and if not then why ? I personally think that humans are becoming more powerful than God Therefore making us God Like.

If you believe bible, 'read it for yourself'

Gen 3: 22 And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil.

Bible Gateway passage: Genesis 3 - New International Version

The Fall - Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?” The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say, ‘You must not...

www.biblegateway.com

Conscious and capable ............. You can quote me.

 

[Massimo2002]

Anyone is free to call whatever they want a god, although there are people who feel very unconfortable with that.

Myself, I don't find the terminology useful nor advisable. Too vague yet too overvalued, therefore too abuse-prone. Worse of all, there isn't nearly enough care to deal with the consequences of that abuse.

All gods - or more properly, all god-conceptions - are ultimately human creations and are as meaningful as us humans make them to be, down to whatever degrees of contradiction, confusion and abuse come with those meanings.

So I guess I have to ask you what do you mean by humans being more powerful than god or god-like.

I think I mean that humans are becoming more knowledgeable and powerful it almost seems like nothing can stop humanity not Even God.

 

[LuisDantas]

I think I mean that humans are becoming more knowledgeable and powerful it almost seems like nothing can stop humanity not Even God.

Interesting. I have much the opposite impression, despite being a hard atheist.

 

[Massimo2002]

Interesting. I have much the opposite impression, despite being a hard atheist.

I would like to hear why you think it's the opposite.

 

[LuisDantas]

I would like to hear why you think it's the opposite.

In a nutshell, I think that humanity doesn't really know what it is doing and has been showing a remarkable high willingness to create and commit to trouble that bites us back while somehow failing to learn rather obvious lessons.

A few years ago I developed an interest in reading about World War One. It is eerie how it happened pretty much against everyone's wishes and outside of anyone's true control. Personally, I blame nationalism and the existence of weapons technology well above the ethical development of the time for that terrible conflict.

Now we are witnessing what sure appears to be the painful agony of democracy, as community after community inflicts serious damage towards itself in order to protect and lend prestige and significance to people that sometimes don't even pretend to have snake oil to sell.

That does not look like humanity becoming godlike to me; it looks like the collapse of people who just don't want to learn better no matter how clear the lesson is nor how dire are the consequences of failing to learn those lessons. It truly feels that we are collectively powerless to protect ourselves from our own inconsequential foolishness.

 

[InChrist]

If so then why and if not then why ? I personally think that humans are becoming more powerful than God Therefore making us God Like.

Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind: cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth, each according to its kind”; and it was so. Genesis 1:24


When a human being can speak a new animal or speak anything else immediately into existence…then you can say humans are becoming maybe at least as powerful as God. Until then, I think you are deceiving yourself. God is Creator, humans are created; big difference.

 

[IndigoChild5559]

If so then why and if not then why ? I personally think that humans are becoming more powerful than God Therefore making us God Like.

The Jewish Tanakh teaches four times that God is not a man.

Numbers 23:19 God is not a man...nor a son of man.
1 Samuel 15:29 for he is not a man
Hosea 11:9 I am God and not a man
Job 9:32 For he is not a man

 

[dybmh]

If so then why and if not then why ? I personally think that humans are becoming more powerful than God Therefore making us God Like.

It depends on the definition of "God" or a "god". If you are referring to the God of the bible, the solitary creator of the heavens and the earth, the god of the great flood, the god of the plagues, then the answer is clearly "no" isn't it? Humans are not God.

Human beings are finite creatures. God is not. Human begins do not have dominion over all the forces of nature.God has dominion over all the forces of nature.

 

[Quintessence]

I think I mean that humans are becoming more knowledgeable and powerful it almost seems like nothing can stop humanity not Even God.

Read the story of Daedalus and Icarus. That's humans in a nutshell. Endlessly suffering from their own hubris and - setting aside the ubiquity of ancestor worship for a moment - utterly failing to touch the gods even as they delude themselves into thinking they do.

 

[Kfox]

If so then why and if not then why ? I personally think that humans are becoming more powerful than God Therefore making us God Like.

It depends on your definition of God. According to some definitions I've heard, yes some humans are Gods.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

If so then why and if not then why ? I personally think that humans are becoming more powerful than God Therefore making us God Like.

God-like and being God or a god are two different things. In my opinion, the former can be true without the latter being true. I do not believe that humans have become gods.

What people think about themselves, varies and some may think so. I cannot say. Serial killers certainly seem to fit a pattern of possessing the ability of god-like behavior. Not very good gods in my opinion. Evil gods I think.

 

[1213]

If so then why and if not then why ? I personally think that humans are becoming more powerful than God Therefore making us God Like.

How powerful do you think God is?

In Bible it is said humans are the image of God. So, it can be said we are in some way like Him. And obviously people can keep many things as their gods. I wouldn't keep any human as my God, because I think Bible God is the greatest and no human comes even close to that.

 

[ppp]

How powerful do you think God is?

In Bible it is said humans are the image of God. So, it can be said we are in some way like Him. And obviously people can keep many things as their gods. I wouldn't keep any human as my God, because I think Bible God is the greatest and no human comes even close to that.

I think that the god of the Bible is worse than any human I have ever met.

 

[1213]

I think that the god of the Bible is worse than any human I have ever met.

Why do you think so?

The reasons why I think God is better is that He is always truthful and just. Also that He has given freedom and the good teachings in the Bible, is to me reason to think He is many times better than humans.

 

[ReformedGuitarist]

According to the Bible, humans are created in the image of God, and even have many abilities and responsibilities granted to them by God (Genesis 1:26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”) However, that does not mean that humans are God. The creation is not the same as the creator. So unless you want to argue that a painting (even a self-portrait) is the same in essence as the artist who created it, no, humans are not God.

 

[ppp]

Why do you think so?

The reasons why I think God is better is that He is always truthful and just. Also that He has given freedom and the good teachings in the Bible, is to me reason to think He is many times better than humans.

You simply call whatever you think your god does "truthful and just" by a kneejerk theological default.

 

[ReformedGuitarist]

You simply call whatever you think your god does "truthful and just" by a kneejerk theological default.

If you're saying that calling whatever God does truthful and just is an irrational, arbitrary standard for what is good, then I'm curious. What do you think is a rational definition of the words "truthful and just"?

 

[TransmutingSoul]

The created, cannot be the creator.

What power a person may think they have is naught but an illusion. Men play with things they should not.

Regards Tony