Did God Become Man Part 4: Can God Become Man

"Indeed, Allah is over all things competent."

(Qur'an 2:20)

This concept of God's omnipotence appears throughout the major religious traditions.

However, understanding God's unlimited power requires first understanding His essential attributes.

Does Omnipotence Include Contradictions?

Most religions describe God as eternal, without beginning or end.

If someone asks, "Can God die?" the question itself becomes contradictory.

Death means coming to an end, whereas God is defined as the Ever-Living. Asking whether God can die is therefore not a meaningful question, because it contradicts His essential nature.

The same applies to asking whether God can be born.

Birth means coming into existence after previously not existing. Yet God, by definition, has no beginning.

Another famous philosophical question asks:

"Can God create a stone so heavy that He cannot lift it?"

If the answer is yes, then something would exist that is greater than God.

If the answer is no, some might argue that God is not all-powerful.

In reality, the question is self-contradictory because it assumes a contradiction within the concept of God Himself.

Therefore, when religious texts state that God is able to do all things, they refer only to actions consistent with His divine nature.

God's power does not include logical contradictions or actions that would negate His own perfection, such as:

Dying

Being born

Forgetting

Sleeping

Repenting

Growing

Eating

These qualities belong to created beings, not to the Creator.

Can God Become Human?

The claim that God became a human being presents another logical contradiction.

If the Creator became part of His own creation, it would imply that the Creator created Himself.

But something cannot create itself.

To be created, something must first not exist. If God did not exist, He could not create anything.

Likewise, if He were created, He would have a beginning, which directly contradicts His eternal nature.

Creation, by definition, depends upon a creator.

God, however, is the Creator and depends upon no one.

Therefore, the idea that God became His own creation contradicts the fundamental definition of God as the eternal, uncreated Creator.

Can Man Become God?

Human beings are finite creatures.

They are born, they live for a limited time, and they die.

These characteristics can never be attributed to God.

For this reason, God neither became a human being nor can a human being become God.

A created being cannot become its own Creator.

Before existing, every human being was nonexistent. Existence itself was granted by the Creator.

Something that once did not exist cannot become the One who brought it into existence.

Is the Human Soul Divine?

Many mystical traditions teach that the human soul is itself divine.

This idea appears in Greek mysticism, certain Christian mystical traditions, some forms of Islamic mysticism, and Hindu philosophy.

According to this belief, fragments of God became enclosed within human bodies, meaning that the infinite entered the finite.

The author argues that this belief creates serious philosophical difficulties.

If the human soul is literally part of God, then acts of evil committed by human beings would ultimately be acts committed by part of God Himself.

To explain suffering and moral accountability, some traditions introduced the concept of karma, which teaches that every action eventually returns to the individual, either in this life or through future reincarnations.

However, another contradiction appears.

If human souls possess independent wills separate from God's will, then they cannot simultaneously be God.

On the other hand, if each soul is itself divine, every individual effectively becomes a separate god.

According to the author, these conclusions undermine the distinction between the Creator and His creation and conflict with the concept of one unique, eternal, and independent God.