Gods Don't Automatically Do Miracles

Story by Inanna Eloah on SoFurry

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Gods have lived among humans for pretty much the entirety of known human history, and yet people often assume that the gods in question will automatically manifest massive powers of persuasion, telekinesis, and telepathy. Why is it that humans always assume that if a god incarnates among them, that it must be that way, or that the divine being has some kind of divine plan behind being there?

More importantly, though, why would a god automatically manifest magnificent miraculous powers on a whim if she or he is living among humans AS a human? Think about it seriously for a moment. People have their myths, their legends, and their truths. Babe Ruth is both a real person and a myth. A truth about Ruth is that he held the world record for home runs up until the 1990's. A myth about Ruth is that he never struck out. The fact is that because Ruth only swung for home runs he struck out quite often. Obviously, therefore, the facts contradict the myth, rendering the myth null and void.

The same is true for gods who live among humans. The myth goes that any time a god lives among men, every human being alive suddenly is fully aware that they're in the presence of the Divine, either by way of miraculous happening or simply by way of the divine being's aura. But facts contradict the myth here too. Some would cite Jesus Christ, who was a god who lived among men, and would point out all the miracles he did. And yet, the fact of the matter is that even in his day, he was publically derided as delusional, crazy, demon-possessed, and a blasphemer. The religious leaders of his day saw no miracles from him that were in any way unique. They might have seen him as a prophet, but not as a god. And contemporary references to Jesus outside the Bible are few and mostly added into other documents to lend credence to the myth (such as in the alleged reference to Jesus in by Josephus, which has long been considered a forgery). So Jesus wasn't seen during his day by his contemporaries in the same way that modern Christian myth claims he was seen.

On an interesting note, a New Testament writer (Paul, I think), mentioned how people who gave strangers a place to stay had "entertained angels unawares." If an angel, or a god, lives in your house, you're not necessarily going to know what that person really is.

When I learned who and what I am, I was surprised, to put it mildly. I had lived 39 years as an ordinary man before I discovered my soul name. I fought against this revelation because of how crazy it sounded to me... that I, an average guy living in a run-down apartment in Arizona at the time, could be the incarnate Goddess Inanna was more than I could believe. The only reason I believe now that I am truly the real Inanna is that the truth would not leave me alone. It is almost four years since I discovered my true identity , and even now I have trouble with this truth occasionally. If I, a divine being myself, have trouble believing that I am who and what I am, why should everyone else automatically know just by being in my presence? It's a bit presumptuous, don't you think? How are you not deluded when you claim that you would instantly know who is a god and who isn't, when one of the very gods themselves doesn't know what s/he is? It sounds pretty much like you're listening to myth rather than reality, and in my humble opinion that's far more insane than a person realizing they're an incarnate deity.

So, despite my apparent rant above, please understand that a god or goddess or angel or demon or whatever else, isn't automatically going to stick out like a sore thumb the instant it walks into your presence. For all you know, your family dog might be one. It's best to let someone else decide who they are, rather than fumbling around in the dark trying to figure their soul out for them.