An Invitation to Peace

that God was ever a man, for example, or any man was in some way
God, it could not be true as that would be ascribing to His nature the
limitations of being human or saying His power could be shared. Other
examples are to say that God ever tired and needed to rest, or
regretted having done anything; this is ascribing human weaknesses to
God. Similarly, if it is taught that there is more than one God it could
also not be true as that would be against His absoluteness. Think about
it: if there were two or more gods, one would either be greater than the
other, in which case the outdone could not be God, or they would
both be equally great and so unable to overpower each other, in which
case both are limited and so neither could be god. The Absolute,
therefore, can only be one.
4) It should not attribute to any created being godhood or
divinity, or anything which is exclusive to God.
All apart from the Creator are created. Everything created is finite –
limited in itself and all its qualities, while the Creator is infinite and
unlimited. To claim that any created being is infinite and unlimited too
is obviously nonsense as to be created means it had a beginning – a
limit in how long it’s existed. Nothing that it possesses, therefore, can
be infinite and unlimited either. So to say any being apart from God has
unlimited power or knowledge cannot be true. All power and
knowledge and anything else that any created thing has is given to it by
the Creator, so we can only have as much as He has given us and no
more.
5) At no point should it teach that anybody or thing other than
Him should be worshipped as well as, or instead of, the One True
God.
For all the above reasons, only God is worthy of being worshipped. Any
good or beautiful characteristic that any created being has, has been
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An Invitation to Peace