I would disagree. I do not believe that seeking intelligence "leads to endless equivocations and misunderstandings." I believe quite the opposite.
That wasn't my complaint. My complaint was that you have tried to change the definitions of basic terms of the discussion beyond what we ordinarily mean by them. When you do that, you insert a disconnect in the discussion, because nobody had been using those terms in your sense in the previous discussion. We all have a fairly good intuitive grasp of what a god is and what it means to worship a god. Your redefinitions violate those intuitions.
As to "absolute control" - I do not know what you mean. The word absolute appears to add little to the discussion in my mind. I would agree that any being that holds “control” over anything could only do so by intelligent means.
I suspect that you know very well what I mean. A god is an intelligent agent that can change at least one aspect of reality in any conceivable way just by willing it to change. And it is important to remember that I said "holds
absolute control", i.e. full mastery. It is not enough just to have some control over reality.
I would also add that it appears to me you have the whole concept of worship backwards. I purport that the reason G-d would have us worship him is that by experience we come to understand him (the concept of knowing someone by walking in their shoes) through emulation...
The concept of worship is fairly well known to people. That is why people use the same postures of obeisance to their gods that they do to humans of superior social status. And the obeisance is done for much the same reasons. Understanding the person or being of higher status is not usually prominent among those reasons. Causing the object of worship to have a favorable attitude towards the worshiper usually is.
How many times are we admonished in scripture that we come to know G-d by keeping his commandments. That through a process we become “one” with G-d. It is not for the purpose of the intelligent that such would encourage others to believe – it is for the less intelligent to become more intelligent that such a possibility is made known.
Scripture says a lot of things about the act of worship. It is natural that one would come to identify with the object of worship, since the whole point is usually to become part of the community of the one being worshiped. The goal of worship is empowerment, and that is certainly what happens when a person "becomes one" with God.
What I propose is that there exists intelligence greater than what we now experience. I suggest we seek after greater intelligence than we currently possess. If you disagree – the only possible reason I can imagine is that you do not believe a greater intelligence is possible.
I cannot imagine how you would arrive at that conclusion from what I have posted. I certainly do believe that greater intelligence is possible. Why shouldn't I? I just do not define that greater intelligence as "God". I think that you are engaged in a reification fallacy when you try to equate a god with an attribute such as intelligence. Gods are entities--intelligent agents. Worship can involve seeking to identify with the object of worship, but that is not always essential to the process.