What's wrong with those people who deify a man?

[The Emperor of Mankind]

Can God not walk the very earth he created? Why is the idea that God would choose to incarnate into his very creation so frightening to you?

Yeah, for real. I don't get Muslims who say "Allah is all-powerful but he can't do this or that".

 

[4consideration]

@sovietchild

Many Christians believe God to be omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent.

According to those beliefs about God -- the being omnipresent part --there is no place God is not, at all times.

That's what omnipresent means. It is not a matter of God being able to enter a realm God does not already exist in. God is already there.

If one believes God is omnipresent and also believes God is not in a location, one does not believe God is everywhere at once. That is a limitation of God.

If one is to believe God is omnipresent, and then says that God is not here, one must add some kind of belief that has the power to effect some kind of separation from that which is not separated.

(People often do that to convince themselves and others they are better in God's eyes than the people they are criticizing. They create a belief that says "that group" is separated from that which cannot be separated.)

Many Christians believe in the concept of a type of sin that caused an actual separation from God, and that Jesus came to redeem that. This is an area where there is much disagreement. Some believe that the "sin" was simply an error in a "belief of separation from God," when none could actually exist. There is much disagreement among various Christian groups as to the nature and role of Jesus, but not so much disagreement in God's ability.

 

[Glaurung]

Yeah, for real. I don't get Muslims who say "Allah is all-powerful but he can't do this or that".

Islam has to deny the divinity of Christ otherwise its existence makes no sense.

So Jesus is a prophet, whose message was completely distorted mere years after his death thus accomplishing nothing. Also Allah staged the crucifixion in order to fool the Jews... Because reasons.
Consequently he sent Muhammad to fix this mess (which Allah helped make in the first place, because Jews). But don't worry because we can now rest assured that this time the message has been persevered with Muhammad... Because again reasons.

It makes sense, albeit in a convoluted way.

 

[The Emperor of Mankind]

Islam has to deny the divinity of Christ otherwise its existence makes no sense.

So Jesus is a prophet, whose message was completely distorted mere years after his death thus accomplishing nothing. Also Allah staged the crucifixion in order to fool the Jews... Because reasons.
Consequently he sent Muhammad to fix this mess (which Allah helped make in the first place, because Jews). But don't worry because we can now rest assured that this time the message has been persevered with Muhammad... Because again reasons.

It makes sense, albeit in a convoluted way.

Yeah. Also the Bible can't be trusted as a source of events because it was written/compiled centuries after the events it details took place. But the Quran is tooootally trustworthy even though it's even more temporally and geographically removed from said events. And God couldn't be bothered intervening to set the record straight on why the Bible was wrong so he waited another 400-600 years to start a new book. Because reasons. And Jews.

 

[Nakosis]

So, what is wrong with those people who deify a man? I think the reason they deify a man is because they want to be defied also. They think that “if they can be worshiped, I can be worshiped”. And, so they join the club thinking they have a chance to be worshiped. A human who wants other humans to worship him. Classical. Is it not?
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Not uncommon among the Greeks and Romans. Just another concept of God. People create a God meme according to whatever influences them. Just fiction really created by the minds of men.

Why criticize only one type of God meme? Any meme of God can be equally criticized. The only reason to accept one meme over another is personal preference. Man's idea of God is fictional. One fictional account or another, it doesn't really matter.

Create your own deity if you need a deity. Give them whatever characteristics you feel they should have. Make up your own stories about them.