Normally apologetics tries to say "God exists, a particular god does." We assert an image and then try to show that that image is rooted in reality.
Another, rarer use (unprecedented?) is to evaluate a superpowerful being that claims to be God. We have something that seems like it could be God, but is it? Or is it just a very powerful being, perhaps some kind of alien, AI, or the voice or avatar of some finite being that is running our simulation (if it's possible to live in a simulation)?
This may come into play at the end of the world, if something similar-enough to the events in Revelation occur.
What is God? What makes God God? The MSLN answer is that power ultimately comes from authority, and authority comes from legitimacy, which comes from knowing everything there is to know, and being disposed to undergo the effects of one's will to the greatest extent possible. So plausible candidates for "God on earth" would have to conform to that pattern, if MSLN is to be believed.
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