Thoughts of this story from the Talmud

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I've heard this story before. I didn't know what the exact issue at hand was.

This is interesting to me because one of the things that Christianity does differently to Judaism is (obviously) the Incarnation, the idea that God in some sense reduces Himself to human status to accomplish the salvation of humanity (this also exalts human status, of course, so I'm really not treating it with full justice in this sentence. Oh well). Yet here we see a Jewish story in which God, while not Incarnate, is being treated, as the OP said, on a roughly equivalent level with the human rabbim, such that He can be held to be in the minority and thus wrong about a point of the Law that He laid out.

Obviously the Christian perspective isn't particularly relevant to this Talmudic story, but the story does demonstrate that the treatment of, for lack of a better word for this concept, 'majesty' is very, very different in at least some strands of actual Jewish thought than in the stereotype of Jewish thought with which a lot of Christians live.