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First question, if you want help with choices of feats/options what materials are you allowed to use? Obviously if you are using an oracle you can use the APG but what about Ultimate magic or Ultimate Combat? What about 3rd party material or Campaign Setting Paizo books? Since you are new to the group and to the game, check with the dm, each has their own line in the sand for these sorts of things, and you dont want to spend alot of time creating a character you cant use.
What sort of God does your character think he is, and how does his supposed godlike powers manifest? An Oracle of Lore can be almost omniscient with just a couple of revelations.
I think it might be more interesting if at first he doesn't realize he's a god and slowly learns about his past--I like stories that build, personally. Otherwise he comes off as a jerk, IMO. Any Oracle domain could work, though.
My suggestion would be either an Oracle of Battle is you are going for a warlike deity. Or an Oracle of life is you want to go the benevolent deity.
An Oracle of Battle would allow you to pose as a fighter who is an incarnation of the deity of war. From a role-playing stand point this may be easier and at the same time a lot of fun. Start out claiming to be a simple warrior but when you are in a crisis situations your divinity manifests. Pick mostly buff spells and you may even get some people believing you. This way you can "Discover" your past during the game.
If you are going the Oracle of life then your delusions are probably already manifesting before the game. Probably go the messiah angle. Play up the whole benevolent preacher aspect and really annoy the rest of the party.
Personally I think the Oracle of Battle would be a blast.
My question with the viability of this is how aware of magic are the people in the setting...I'm not familiar with serpent skull...In a low magic world were the common people don't understand much about magic this seems like it could work...in your standard pathfinder campaign it seems like a hard sell to think that people would think you are a god for functionally doing what clerics they are inundated with every day already do(not trying to be a buzz kill but if I was DMing this you would probably making diplomacy at high DC's to fool people and there would be a great risk anytime you were around knowledgeable people especially clerics that they would react badly)...assuming your DM is down with working with you to let this happen I have another question...what happens If some one can disprove his belief(delusional people which sounds like what your describing react exceedingly badly to things that don't fit into there delusion or people questioning them)...can he be convinced he's not a god if a knowledgeable person explains the concepts of oracles to him...
Your undead hating idea sounds a lot like a worshiper of Phrasma will your character think he is an incarnation of Phrasma or just a similar being...
I think you should look at the Heavens Mystery (Lure of heavens ltes you walk on water...Awesome display can help prove your divinity and impress people...a lot of the other ones are related to stars and night so the can be used to impress and are unusual)Life has some good options like discussed above...You could do one of the nature based ones to show control over the natural world which could show another type of divinity...
As far as curses I would avoid tongues and wasting if you want followers...Haunted and lame seem to work the best especially haunted because it gives some credence to the fact that you are more then you appear if people see it manifesting...Clouded vision makes a lot of sense to but the penalties are steep(could be fun to role play though)
The Seer Arch type could also be good if you want to try to use a lot of divination to show your all knowing(prophetic vision from ultimate magic could help with this)
Feats:
Leadership seems almost a preq if your Dm allows it take advantage of high charisma and let your converts work for you...extra revelations might be worth it depending on which mystery you pick...Skill focus diplomacy could be a nice touch given your chars reliance on that skill...Other then that the rest of feats seems to come down to play style.
Skills
heal-heal the sick anyone
sense motive-seem wiser then you are like you can red people
diplomacy-obvious
intimidate-if some times your benevolent mood darkens
knowledge religion- your faith and others
Use Magic Device gives you access to wider and in many case flashier or more impressive spells like those from druid and arcane lists
A few options hope that helps.
I would personally like playing the battle oracle but from what your describing it seems a little wrong...It seems to much like chars people will encounter(they play very like battle clerics, paladins, and a lot of other oracles)...to make people think you are a god I would focus on using unique abilities people would be less likely to see that our outwardly impressive...
Stat wise really depends on the build if your going straight caster(nature or life) obviously max Charisma as high as you can(actually do this regardless because your spell casting and all your main skills and leadership if you take it would focus on it)...a lot of your abilities and role playing could benefit from a good wisdom(heal, sense motive, being an all knowing and wise figure)...Intelligence can be low to average all it does for you is set the level you want to role play at(this char doesn't have to be real smart if he is wise)...Strength enough to wear your armor and a bit more if you plan to be in melee...dex doesn't really matter for your char...Con should probably be your highest after charisma...
If you go battle ignore most of that advice...charisma is still king as is a strong con...strength needs to be high for damage and to hit especially if you go two handed although i would probably go sword and board unless you have a really high strength and use buffs as protection
Another consideration is other then the summoner what is your party set up...A life oracle can take the role of a cleric(steal ones thunder especially if you take the channel energy)...Battle cleric can help in a melee weak party...I wouldn't play a nature based one if you had a druid in the party...If none of those roles in necessary than play what ever you want
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Oracle of the Heavens seems very good for a god-wannabe. You get to float, hover, and eventually fly (a god doesn't walk like puny mortals); you can dazzle people with illusions; and eventually, you can kill people by striking the true fear of YOU into their hearts. (You get Phantasmal Killer as a mystery.)
I love Oracles
my 2 main characters (AP and PFS) at the mo are all Oracles
for your concept as Foxy says it must be heavens
you have these god like powers, so you must be of that origin
Heavens targets all 3 saves quite nicely
Many oracle powers are (SU) so no issues with AOO, Conc, being grappled etc
if they just had 2 good saves instead of one.....
i second the idea that heavens works for flavor(even if you take life I would ask the DM to let me take the one that lets you float because its awsome for flavor but not a huge in game ability)...I am less convinced though looking at your party that life might not be the wiser choice...you have no healers and I do not agree that combat healing sucks(it is a necessity in my regular campaigns-if you don't have channel you die a lot)... taking life along with the channel revelation and selective channeling will make your party love you even if it doesn't make your followers lover you more...the big problem with in combat healing is it can be boring as a cleric/oracle but if you fight tough combats consistently I wouldn't want to go without(especially if I'm the tank or melee DPS)...
What to do in combat and a lot of your divinity flavor can come from UMD with your charisma you will be able to use any classes scrolls, and wands.(through a fireball, control unbelievers, or turn into a beast and so many more) The only limitation on your awesomeness is your creativity and a little bit of gpa.
Got to love some one willing to role play hard and take tons of penalties with the curses
Revelations(if you take life)
1. Channel-channel positive energy of the gods and everyone is happy
2. Life link-take on the wounds of your followers ad bear their suffering
3.Energy body-not the most useful in my opinion but lots of flavor potential
4. most of the other abilities in some way just make you better at healing the injured and curing the sick so that works out...
I look into building the two options but to your other question no cures are not in my opinion enough...they can work if you are only healing lets say one or two warrior classes defending a choke point but in my experience a lot of people tend to be taking damage at any one time...problem 2 you have to be in touch range(with the new murderous rules surrounding casting defensively this is exceedingly dangerous even with combat casting)...Channel gets 30 feet radius and does not provoke an attack of opportunity(so you can get to guys in the thick of battle and do so safety with an AOE that can help everyone in the party...Channel also has really solid options like quicken channel that can let you double up your channels twice per round add in the head band of positive channeling or what ever its called and that's enough with good rolls to bring anyone back from the brink(it can also make a very useful attack option against massed undead)
This assumes combat heavy and intense battle if that's not your Gm's style and you only need after action healing then your fine.
Life Oracle
stats
Str-10
Dex-8(your lame)
con-14
Int-10
Wis-14
Cha-21
Traits
Natural Born leader-make more use of leadership and adds to the flavor
Dangerously curious-gets you UMD as a class skill ad gives you a bonus
Mystery-life
Revelations
Channel 3d6(5d6 if you get the headband I mentioned) 8 times a day DC-18
Energy Body-you become glowing energy and and heal friends or harm undead
Life Link-take on other peoples wounds
Feats
Skill focus Diplomacy
Selective Channeling
Quick Channeling
Extra Channeling
Skills(all maxed)
Diplomacy-16
Heal-10
Knowledge religon-8
Sense Motive-10
Spellcraft-8
UMD-14
In sum extremely strong combat healer who relies on spells and UMD to cause havoc in combat. Effective party face and some useful skills on top of it.
Heaven
Same stats, traits
Revelations
Lure of heavens right now your hovering above the ground eventually your flying
Awesome display-makes great use of color spray and other pattern based illusions(check out the bonus spells/not sure if this would work with UMD but it should)-flavor
Interstellar void-this one was a toss up but 5d6 cold damage that gets better with lvls isn't bad.
Feats
Skill focus diplomacy
I was a little less sure on these it depends on play style
if you want to go with awesome display and focus on illusions spell focus illusion and spell penetration could help...you will be doing more casting and less healing but what you will be doing is close in so combat casting might be a good choice.
Expanded arcane to give you more spell casting options
There really aren't any must takes
Skills
diplomacy-16
heal-10
sense motive-10
UMD-14
Fly-7
Perception-10
Better class skill give you fly and perception
In sum not a great healer but you can do in a pinch...lots of good flavor...more active role as a spell caster and using your revelations to befuddle and do damage...
What you need to make this concept work is to find a good dead deity for your character to be. I would suggest Aroden as no one really knows what happened to him. The fact is that you are able to cast divine spells so just saying you are a nut case will not work. Even other divine casters will not be able to prove outright you are not in fact Aroden reborn.
If your GM lets you play a pure blood Azlati, if not just play a normal Azlati.