I was just thinking how people have incredibly silly ideas about what it means to be God. Before Jesus, I would actually understand it – they would expect God’s appearance in this world to be something of supernatural majesty, authority and power, where God appears and everybody drops on their collective arse in fear and obedience. If God appears in human form, they would still expect him to be superhuman, and all the laws of the world to obey him.

But Jesus showed something different. God needed to be born in a barn among the farm animals because there was no room for his parents at the inn. There were persistent questions about his godhood, to the point where the religious authorities decided to have him crucified for blasphemy.

Just think about it. Having someone executed for blasphemy means that for some people it was “obvious” that it’s a matter of an ordinary human “pretending to be a God”. This means that all the miracles attributed to Jesus were either generally unknown, or questionable, or apocryphal. It wasn’t obvious, in a sense that Jesus looked the way he’s historically been painted, with light and authority of God radiating from him, making it obvious he’s a person of God.

If you read the gospels carefully, you’ll understand that he was often starving, and living in abject poverty. He was constantly put into question. He was persecuted. Multiple attempts against his life were made. Does that sound like someone who was “obviously” God? To me, it seems that only the most spiritually intuitive people figured out enough to guess right, but it was far from obvious. Only his resurrection answered this question finally and decisively.

Apparently, people haven’t learned from this, and they still have the assumption that if God were to be born as a human, he’s be a perfect human with superpowers, everything he’s do would succeed, all the resources, energies and laws of the world would serve him and it would be an obvious thing.

No, it would not. Those expectations got Jesus crucified. Those exact expectations are why that Lama poisoned Milarepa – if he’s truly enlightened, I won’t be able to harm him, and if he’s not, I will discredit a fraud. The crucial wrong expectation is that God rules this world, and being one with God basically makes you omnipotent here. But think about it – if Satan rules here, being God merely makes you a target of great hatred from the one who rules this place, and decides who gets the resources, and who gets crucified.