I thought we might debate/discuss (in a way I could present on my blog, rather than just scattered in comment sections): what it means to be godlike

To be honest, I’m not quite sure if I could put that into some coherent 600 words piece as you suggested previously, because it would be all just variations of one theme — we are godlike, we’re just oblivious of the fact. Anyway, feel free to copy/paste my responses to you.

Doubting Thomas … is hardly an endorsement of skepticism; on the contrary … standards of skepticism [were not the same] between modern philosophy and ancient Christianity

As I see it, the same capacity for skepticism was present in times of ancient Christianity as it is today. The heavy emphasis on faith in spirituality has to do with the fact that (as it seems) for most people it’s the most natural path — they follow a “scout” and believe that the path will eventually “bear fruit”. But until it does, they must rely on blind faith. Needles to say, it’s also the path that is the easiest to tamper with, i.e. it all boils down to the dilemma of trust, whether it’s misplaced or not, and whether the “scout” has some “hidden agenda”. It’s not that hard to answer the last question when it comes to religions.

The miracles of the miracle-working healer could be taken as symbols of the power of our divine inner reality

I never understood why Christians (but also adherents of other religions, maybe except Islam, but I’m not sure) put miracles on such a high pedestal and as a proof of divine inner reality, when their book itself warns against miracles of magicians and witches (aka animists) that could lead people into wrong conclusions. I think that “miracle-working” is a highly personal trait, something like talent, as someone is a good athlete someone is predisposed to “miracle-working”. Yet, everyone has the capacity to know.