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Because this is how all the other gods work, obviously. You need QUITE a strong justification to argue that the Christian god follows other rules than any other god, especially considering that you also have to justify why Christianity grew more than any other religion despite being the only one without a god.
OK, but at the very least there were plenty of Christian pagans who did believe in the big God but also believed in other gods. Even under the following baseless assumptions:
Believing in a more universal god for some reason doesn't create that god
Gods don't actually help their religions grow at all
No god, incarnation, or other entity can impersonate God
you still run into issues because at the very least these Christian pagans are still around and would be providing a non-universal version of God quite a lot of power, possibly enough for him to be able to tap into the broader Christian power source.
That's all I need! I don't even care whether God exists in-story, my gripe is that faith in him doesn't work where all the logic of the book says it should. There should be plenty of Christian sects worshipping impersonator gods and gaining power thereby.
Like a certain deity evoking imagery of nails, blood and three-fingered gestures?
Are you seriously claiming that Maricica impersonated the Christian God in a way at all relevant to what we're talking about?
No, she doesn't quite have enough desire or similarity for that. But I found it a funny set of minor parallels.
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