You are being intellectually dishonest by equating mormon progression to godhood to theosis.
You and the rest of the posse hadn’t even heard of it until I told you about it. For all your research you don’t even know your own doctrines.
Don't inflate your self opinion 10, I known about theosis for quite some time now. You equate mormon progression to godhood to theosis is intellectually dishonest. That is the point. copy and paste the following link and you will see that fundamentally the two are not compatable
http://orthodoxwiki.org/Theosis
They are wholly compatible. I would be, then, that you, the pseudonymous Godzilla of FR, are in a tiny minority of Christians and an even smaller number of the world’s population to even know that there are Christian doctrines of Deification/Theosis/Divinization.
That the LDS have this doctrine is itself Christian. What you object to and find incompatible with your belief and the distinguishing differences for Lutherans/Protestants, Catholics and the Orthodox stems only from your and their definitions of the nature of God and the “mystery” of the Trinity.
Here are the definitions:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deify
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deification
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divinization_(Christian) [Read the whole thing it is very interesting]
See also the Catechism of the Catholic Church:
Article 3
“HE WAS CONCEIVED BY THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, AND WAS BORN OF THE VIRGIN MARY”
Paragraph 1. THE SON OF GOD BECAME MAN
I. WHY DID THE WORD BECOME FLESH?
460 The Word became flesh to make us “partakers of the divine nature”:78 “For this is why the Word became man, and the Son of God became the Son of man: so that man, by entering into communion with the Word and thus receiving divine sonship, might become a son of God.”79 “For the Son of God became man so that we might become God.”80 “The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in his divinity, assumed our nature, so that he, made man, might make men gods.”81
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apotheosis
http://orthodoxwiki.org/Theosis
One would expect there to be theological differences between Christian churches, particularly between a Christian church that rejects the Trinity and one that accepts it. Nonetheless, all Christian churches have the concept of divinization/theosis/deification via the actions, life and salvation of Jesus Christ.
I don’t know who is being intellectually dishonest in this discussion. I’ve often given you the very references I used to conclude this. Read it for yourself.
You may disagree, but you cannot accuse me of being intellectually dishonest:
1. Jesus Christ promises us full heirship with him.
2. Jesus Christ has a body and took it with him into Heaven.
3. We get a resurrected body, are judged and go to Heaven all without losing said body.
The above are all Biblical and all the Bible has to say on the matter. Don’t believe me. Use your own eyes, reason and faith.