- Jan 27, 2021
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There being a distinction between the creator entity and their spawn is irrelevant. They're all still gods.You've triggered my pet peeve!
The idea of "God = superhuman" is a trope I find incredibly unsatisfying and boring. It degrades the idea of a divine creator who is omnipotent and omniscient into just some dude with magic powers. Even in mythology, a strong distinction is borne between the creator entity (Chaos, Ginnungagap, Atum), and their children/spawn that end up being colloquially referred to as gods.
The Apostles/Chosen are gods only in the sense that they are worshiped, but they do not have what would be considered a divine nature. At BEST, we can call them demigods if we wish to assume the whole One God -> Two Outer Twins -> Two Arbiter Triplets -> Six Apostle Twins hierarchy is true, but even then they would be an avatar of an avatar of an avatar of God.
And as a side tangent to my side tangent, I don't think the idea of God being illogical due to omnipotence being self-refuting is actually a strong case for Him not to exist. Humans naturally attempt to shape logic to best fit the natural world, so if something is illogical, what that actually ends up meaning is "cannot arise from the natural world". Which... yeah. God doesn't come from the natural, he is supernatural. He is above, beyond, and independent of the natural world. The idea that God is somehow subservient to human constructed logic is laughable.
So how are the Apostles different to the beings referred to as gods (e.g. Zeus, Thor, Vishnu, Perun, etc) in our mythologies, such that we shouldn't call them gods?
Seems like you just don't like them being referred to as gods because it puts them on the same level as your god (Yahweh). Not a very good reason for anyone who doesn't follow an Abrahamic religion to not refer to them as gods.