Wrong Comparison between God and Man

God to be like himself, and he to be like God. This mistake has been made by man in every age. The whole of human history is the story of this mistake and its consequences. To think God to be like man is to try to bring God to the human level. All forms of wrong notions about God are a product of this mistake, involving assumptions about God based on wrong analogies between man and Him. We come into this world through biological parents. On this basis, it was assumed that if there is a God, He, too, must have a parent or parents, that there must have been someone before God, who brought God into being. Because the eternal God is not physically visible to an individual, he began denying His existence. Observing himself, reflecting on the fact that he himself is a created being, should have led a person to acknowledge the existence of the Creator. But because of the above-mentioned analogy that people drew between human beings and God, they were not ready to accept Him. But many of those who accepted God made the very same mistake, albeit in a different way. They observed that when people do something, it is often with the direct or indirect help of many other people. On this basis, they began attributing partners and helpers to God. Among human beings, the recommendation of ‘big’ people with access to those in power and authority helps in getting things done. Accordingly, it was assumed that God, too, had some special people who were very close to Him, who had great influence in His court and whose recommendation God accepted. Human beings are subordinated to their emotions. Often, they ignore the demands of Truth and decide things under the sway of their emotions. Drawing an analogy from this, people invented the belief that God had a special emotional link with members of a special group or community, and that His relations with them were altogether different from His relations with the rest of humankind. All such beliefs are a negation of God’s divinity. But in