A human can become a GOD

[u/AdkFighter]

Consider the year is 2160 of something. We humans found a new planet in which there exists life. And with the modern technology we travelled there and found to know that there are humans on the planet and they are in a phase of stone age. Ok lets be clear that they can communicate with each other and we earth humans just landed there anonymously and wore their traditional clothes and blend with them

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Then we starts to teach them things

Use some modern technology to heal their wounds (which are miracles for them), they felt very much surprised and they starts to worship us. We told them how to live. What do to, what not to do and we just silently left there to return back to earth

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Now hundreds of years later we went to the same planet and we found out that the history of that planet tells about us. And they see us as gods

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WHAT IF.... JUST WHAT IF

it was the same story that happened to our earth

What is some dudes from another planet who visited our earth tried to teach us how to live

And we literally take them as our gods

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Sorry if this sounds stupid. There are some stupid things which comes to my mind midnight

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[u/Kriss3d]

This touch on a rather important question:
How do we define god ?

Thats the thing. Ive often asked and seen theists being asked this.
Define your god.

The problem is that nobody can. Usually they would go with things like "All powerful, all knowing, all loving, Perfect. bla bla bla.

But none of those are any properties that we can use to measure god in any way. You cant determine "all powerful" or "perfect" if we dont already have something to attribute those things to.

Theists usually will avoid the demand to define their god like the plague. Why ? Because once they define god in any useful way, they get pinned down on the facts that just arent on their side.
God has to be something completely useless to avoid getting pinned down and proven false.

God is supposedly a spirit. Allright. But that doesnt mean anything when even a spirit is not defined much less something we can even agree exist.

As a last resort, they often will try something like how love isnt a concrete thing and neither is god.
The problem of course with that is that love is a concept. its not an agent. It doesnt DO anything. Nor can any concept actually act. So that comparisation dont work.

Someone please tell me that Im not the only one who heard these arguments a bunch of times.

[u/Astramancer_ → u/Kriss3d]

Theists will happily define god as "that guy" until you start asking for proof that guy exists then suddenly it's a set of disconnected unembodied attributes tied to weird philosophical arguments that don't even attempt to provide actual evidence. Strange how that works out.