"What if God was one of us?"
When we think of God, we generally assume we are talking about a single creature infinite in both power and in wisdom. We think he has a plan, probably a really good and jolly plan, and that plan is why we are here. We rarely think of God as Spinoza's God who appears in the orderly formation of the Universe and its laws. We also appear to think God is somewhere up high. What if he/she isn't?
"Just a stranger on a bus trying to make his way home."
In the Christian belief, God created man by his own picture, made man to resemble himself. Missing a rib or two for mating purposes, but pretty much like God. That would mean he/she could walk among us without us knowing about it. There are plenty of people who believe God has spoken to them (though it might have been the Metatron), and quite a few who believe they've seen him/her walk around. It's a possibility.
If there is a God that controls the world, does it matter where he/she is? A person with incomparable power and being worshiped by all those beneath him or her would classify as a 'god'. An alien to our world with technology we can only understand as magic would classify as a 'god'. Then again, with enough belief, any one of us could see oneself as 'god'. After all, we appear to have the power to change our own fates, and alter the lives of others. We don't know whether we are the only sentient beings in the known Universe and everyone we meet is but an illusion created by us, simulated to act in different manners to make our imagined life more interesting. We are but homonculi, probing out from a dark room allegedly known as our brains.
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