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My interpretation is that the fish didn't actually turn down and punish, but fulfilled the wish. It's just that the fish thought: to be like God means to be humble. She asks to be like God, true godliness is humility. So she did get what she wanted, but not in the way she thought. (BTW I'm not religious in the sense I go to church a lot, and don't even necessarily believe in God, but I do share many of the values of religion.)

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> It's just that the fish thought: to be like God means to be humble.

In which religion is the God humble? It wont be Christianity for sure.

Being born to a human, growing up and living as one of them, and letting himself be tortured and killed by his own creation isn't humble?

You don't have to believe it, of course, but God humbling himself is pretty much the defining aspect of Christianity.

> Being born to a human, growing up and living as one of them, and letting himself be tortured and killed by his own creation isn't humble?

That is self sacrifice.

But surely humility is only one attribute of God, and not the most relevant one. Omnipotence and omniscience are typically listed as more important aspects of the divine.

It depends on the religion. In Christianity, Islam, and some "the universe is a simulation" theories: yes. In other religions, god is not all that powerful.

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