What If God Was One of Us?
What If God Was One of Us? Reimagining Divinity Through a Human Lens Imagine riding the subway next to the divine. What would you notice? What assumptions would you confront? This thought experiment, made popular by Joan Osborne’s 1995 hit, isn’t just poetic—it challenges how we think about faith, morality, and connection. By asking “what if God was one of us?”, we hold up a mirror to ourselves, revealing what we expect of perfection, and how we treat the ordinary. In this article, we’ll explore the cultural, philosophical, and emotional power of this question. It reminds us that the sacred may be closer than we think. Why This Question Resonates So Deeply The idea that God could be human isn’t new. Most major religions have flirted with or fully embraced the concept of a divine figure taking human form. Christianity speaks of Jesus as both God and man. Hinduism has avatars. Greek mythology had gods who walked among mortals. But this question—”What if God was one of us?”—feels differen...