If Finn flew through the air using Transcendent abilities, if he survived fatal wounds through divine essence, if he accomplished feats that no mortal could theoretically replicate under any circumstances... then he wouldn't be building the kind of foundation that could support faith.
He'd be building fear, perhaps. Awe, certainly. But not faith, not that deep belief that formed the bedrock of divinity.
Luna had been careful to emphasize in the book that this was theory based on divine retrospection. That in fact, it might not turn out to be true. That using his Transcendent and divine abilities from the onset might not have the alienating effects on people's faith that she predicted.
But Finn disagreed with that caveat.
The theory made perfect sense. A path that every God had naturally followed to achieve legendary status as mortals before divinity touched them versus an untested shortcut that risked failing at the most crucial step?
There was really only one logical choice.
