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THEN DIE!!!!!!!!!
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Do you consider Sisko a God?
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I think much of the series was devoted to the idea that Sisko was "just" a man. after WYLB though... wish we would see more so I could answer that question.
Sisko was 100% human.
His mother was only used as a vessel, but she too was 100% human.
His mother was only used as a vessel, but she too was 100% human.
For most faiths this is very true.
BTW: Star trek is still unfortunately 'Just a show" though for the time being.
Not a God...just "Differently Divine"
No, I always thought of the Prophets as just advanced alien beings, and therefore Sisko was partly non-human but certainly not divine.
I thought of the Prophets as non-linear entities. They seemed to be very intelligent, but at the same time they had alot of trouble figuring out the ways of the linear peoples.
I would say Sisko is definitely human, nothing more. The prophets might have had a hand in Sisko's birth -- but maybe they always did. Maybe they decided to allow him to be born after they met him. That sounds like just the needlessly confusing thing they'd do. When Sisko was invited into the Wormhole he brought in as a teacher -- or maybe a special consultant; a specialist in liner and non-linear being relations.
I suppose alot of this hinges on whether or not you see the Prophets themselves as Gods. If you have the view that they're entities or aliens, than you're probably not going to think of Sisko as more than human. If you're like the Bajorans, on the other hand, and you do think of the Prophets as your Gods, then obviously Sisko will look like a holy man, at the very least.
Did the Bajorans Sisko encountered ever think of him as more than just a holy man? I don't remember if any Bajorans ever saw him as a deity.
I would say Sisko is definitely human, nothing more. The prophets might have had a hand in Sisko's birth -- but maybe they always did. Maybe they decided to allow him to be born after they met him. That sounds like just the needlessly confusing thing they'd do. When Sisko was invited into the Wormhole he brought in as a teacher -- or maybe a special consultant; a specialist in liner and non-linear being relations.
I suppose alot of this hinges on whether or not you see the Prophets themselves as Gods. If you have the view that they're entities or aliens, than you're probably not going to think of Sisko as more than human. If you're like the Bajorans, on the other hand, and you do think of the Prophets as your Gods, then obviously Sisko will look like a holy man, at the very least.
Did the Bajorans Sisko encountered ever think of him as more than just a holy man? I don't remember if any Bajorans ever saw him as a deity.
"Might have had a hand" - the show suggests they had a definite hand in it, so much so that when the Prophet left Sarah she immediately left Joseph and moved to the other side of the world. That is the part of the story I've always had a problem with, the fact that they forced someone into having a child and remaining in a relationship that they obviously did not want to remain in. That means that Sisko's biological mother wanted nothing to do with him after he was born...or even before he was born. If I could change anything about the series I would change this aspect.
I can't imagine the gods would be overly concerned with inconveniencing a mere mortal who was then permitted to resume her life.
If anything, these seemingly callous actions make them seem more godlike.
True, but I would have preferred that Sisko would have been born anyway, but the Prophet just made sure his birth occurred and then got "attached" to little baby Benjamin.
In this case it wouldn't be the Prophet's making Ben Sisko exist, more of the Prophet's making sure that he existed, if that makes sense.
CaptainHawk1
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Sisko wasn't a god, he was an emissary, a go-between or a representative, if you will, as that's what the definition of an emissary is. 
The only people that claimed that the Prophets were gods were the Bajorans, the Prophets themselves didn't even refer to themselves as gods. The fact is, just as the term emissary is being misunderstood, so is the term prophet. Prophets aren't gods, God speaks through them (or gods, if you want). So, considering that we now know what a prophet is, isn't it a possibility that God has chosen the Prophets to speak His word to the Bajoran people (and the Prophets chose Sisko because God willed it) just as he chose Abraham or Moses here on Earth?
If you subscribe the monotheistic model and in the same breath subscribe to the fact that there is intelligent life on other planets, than you must subscribe to the concept that God is God everywhere and there is only one and the God of Earth would also have to be the God of Bajor, right? This has been touched upon in the TOS episode Bread and Circuses so I think it's fair to mention it here. The Bajorans may just be misinterpreting the actual divine status of the Prophets.
Just something to consider.
-Shawn
The only people that claimed that the Prophets were gods were the Bajorans, the Prophets themselves didn't even refer to themselves as gods. The fact is, just as the term emissary is being misunderstood, so is the term prophet. Prophets aren't gods, God speaks through them (or gods, if you want). So, considering that we now know what a prophet is, isn't it a possibility that God has chosen the Prophets to speak His word to the Bajoran people (and the Prophets chose Sisko because God willed it) just as he chose Abraham or Moses here on Earth?
If you subscribe the monotheistic model and in the same breath subscribe to the fact that there is intelligent life on other planets, than you must subscribe to the concept that God is God everywhere and there is only one and the God of Earth would also have to be the God of Bajor, right? This has been touched upon in the TOS episode Bread and Circuses so I think it's fair to mention it here. The Bajorans may just be misinterpreting the actual divine status of the Prophets.
Just something to consider.
-Shawn
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