sechel, you are twisting yourself out of shape just like the Christians are. They are always “quoting” verses of Tanach, but mis-translating and misconstruing the meaning of the verses itself, as well taking them out of context.
The Tanach and Talmud consistently and continously teach us, over and over again, there is one consistent message, that Hashem is One, the only One, who runs the world. Nothing in Tanach or Gemorah, contadicts this basic fact. It is my conclusion, as someone who has studied the history and religion of Christianity (and other religions) and after having argued with Christians, that those Lubavitchers who believe that the Rebbe is alive and that he runs the world are absolutely going down the same route the Christians have gone. These Lubavitchers (who believe this ideology) and Christians first believed in someone as the moshiach. Then, when their moshiach died they “revived” him because moshiach can’t be dead, but for him to “live” after his death he needs to have some “divine” powers. So they attribute divine powers to him and in that way he becomes to them , in the early stages of developement of their false religion, an almost an “equal” to Hashem…after awhile their idol becomes, in their eyes, an equal to Hashem.
I have heard some of their “rabbis” talk and I’m utterly shocked at not only the nonsense, but the kefira that spouts from their mouths. If mainstream Lubavitchers do not believe in all of this kefira do they they protest this? Maybe they do. I don’t know Chabad well enough to know this.