When I was very young, I became ill. The medicine my mother was going to administer was of the worst kind, in my mind, and there was no way I was going to obediently take it. So, I quickly hid in a closet, closed my eyes, bowed my head, and said “Dear Heavenly Father, please give me a magic wand, so that I can make myself better”.

That was a pretty silly prayer to expect God would answer, I doubt many would argue. And yet, how many of us have been pretty close?

We don’t know an answer to a test question: God, is it B, D, or E?

We are stuck in traffic: God, please get these people off the road.

We are lonely: God please send me a soul mate.

We are tired: God, please get my boss to let me go home.

We want a nice car: God, please get me a raise.

Etc.

How many of us have ever thought, if only I were God?

Think of the possibilities.

You could think the thought, and make the neighbor’s dog stop barking.

You could wiggle your finger, and your son’s tattoo would be gone.

You could simply want some breakfast, and it would appear, bedside.

What would you get for yourself, if you were a god? How about:

A mansion with swimming pool and tennis courts and servants?

An intergalactic Lamborghini?

The best-looking, most fun, sexiest lover to be had (or many of them)?

Or, thinking on a larger scale, would you, if you were a god:

Establish world peace?

Abolish diseases? Flies? Weeds?

Get rid of crime, poverty, societal problems of every kind?

(How noble of you. J)

What do you think you would do with your “power” if you were a god? Take a minute, think it over.

Ok. Here are some other questions pertaining to godhood that you may not so readily ask yourself:

Would I have to be “perfect”? What would that mean? Could I be angry? Jealous? Could I prefer something over another thing? Could I love? Hate? Be excited? Have to not get excited?

What would my responsibilities be? Would I have to answer to anyone?

Who would I be responsible to/for? Would I have to spend godhood the way God is? Would I have to have spirit children? Would I have to answer my children’s prayers night and day, day and night, for thousands of years?

Will I allow free agency for my spirit children? Will I have to? If so, what will I do about the ones who hate me? Who sacrifice my other children to idol gods? Who want to follow other gods in the universe besides me? What will I do with the ones who rape, murder, torture, defile my other children? Will I create a hell for them? Will I destroy them?

What if I just don’t allow free agency? Is there any thing wrong with that?

What if I don’t want all that responsibility? Will I have to have it, or can I say “no”, that I’d rather just populate my world with cool plants and animals? Will that make me a lesser god?

What if I get tired of being a god? Can I opt out? Can I give my world over to a different god to run for me? Can I just assume that once I am in heaven, I will always want to be a god, and for eternity, I will never change my mind? Never get tired and want to do something else? Will I be eternally content? Happy with being a god?

It may be easy to dismiss any or all of these kinds of questions with a “well, we’ll know later”. Easy for us to dismiss what “god” means, by just saying “well, he was like us, so, whatever!”

The prayer I offered up for a magic wand revealed my childlike understanding of God and how miracles happen. I am older now, and I have learned much more about “reality”. And yet, there is so much that I don’t know and may never understand.

I do believe, however, that if we were created by God, then there is an absolute truth about God, about what it means to be a god, and about whether or not godhood is possible for anyone besides God.

Consider the possibility that there is a One, a Power, a Knowledge, a Wisdom, a Presence that is so far above everything else as to be The Absolute. It knows so much more than me, that I could spend forever just learning about it and from it. It is so much more loving than I am, that I could spend forever being happy just being close to it. It has so much more than I do, that for eternity, I will never lack for provision, work, play, rest, enjoyment, growth, etc. It is infinitely personal and relational and intimate. He is so complete in himself that I will never ultimately need anything else but Him.

The Holy Bible suggests that God is like this.

It says God is everywhere; there is no place where He is not.

It says God is eternal; there was never a time when He was not God.

He has ALL of the power; He is absolutely Sovereign.

He is the source of everything; there is nothing that can exist without Him.

The Holy Bible’s description of God eliminates the possibility of there being more than one of them. How could there be, with attributes like these?

On this forum there are basically two God views up for grabs. Neither can explain where God came from. Neither can explain how or why He became God.

But personally, the Biblical view gives me peace I never had when I subscribed to the other view. It takes the illusion of control away from me. It absolves me from making myself my own hero. I have such freedom of mind and soul, knowing that God created me, that He worked/is working out my salvation, and that He will be my heaven when this life is over. Given what He has created and surrounded me with so far, I’m extremely excited to find out what He has planned!