Not all the church fathers’ attempts at improving theology hit the mark. This one doesn’t, and there is a good reason it is not in the bible.
We can and must become godLY. Filled with God, changed from our old evil way of living to one that shows the characteristics of God inasmuch as they can be expressed through a human vessel. That doesn’t make us God. And I’m glad it doesn’t because I wouldn’t want that impossible task, impossible because of all the omni’s involved.
That doesn’t make us God. And I’m glad it doesn’t because I wouldn’t want that impossible task, impossible because of all the omni’s involved.
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You are right on in that it does not make us God. Notice I capitalized the letter “G”. While it may not make us God, for God will always be God it does make us like him, we inherit everything that Christ The Lord inherits and that is ALL that His Father has.
We become god. That sounds blasphemous but there is no other way to really do the situation justice. Christ had glory with His Father before there was an earth, He asked His Father to restore that glory to Him and Christ promised that we would have EVERYTHING that He was to have if we follow Him. We are to be joint heirs with Him. While I don’t like using the word in reference to what we become, it is the proper word, we can become god, all can if we follow The Savior.