[You say he has no power over you, but yet here you are, petting him. That's definitely an amount of power. And amount that Dio could get used to.]

No, I am not your god, and I've no interest in claiming power over those who do not give it willingly. [For now, anyway. He did still have his flesh buds, after all, he'd just learned a little bit about morality. Only a little, though.]

That wasn't what I was getting at, anyway. [He was just warning him that gods could break time and space a little. Mostly time, for Dio. Unless all of this garbage had come from also breaking space as an unfortunate side-effect.]