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To: teppe

Mormon Creed = Articles of Faith.

(and so forth...)


645 posted on 05/08/2020 12:36:27 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie; MHGinTN; aMorePerfectUnion; metmom; hondact200; Mark17; ealgeone; SkyDancer

Athanasius: “God was made man that we might be made God” (On the Incarnation of the Logos 54).

Wow ... I was doing a little research and found a quote from 4th Century Athanasius, the Pro-Trinity Hero of the Council of Nicea.

More than anyone else, Athanasius is the reason why you guys believe in the doctrine of the Trinity, as the doctrine did not exist previously.


653 posted on 05/08/2020 4:03:22 PM PDT by teppe
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To: Elsie; MHGinTN; aMorePerfectUnion; metmom; hondact200; Mark17; ealgeone; SkyDancer

Man may become Gods (NOT God the Father!) in Early Christianity.

Irenaeus (c. 130-200)

“[T]he Word of God, our Lord Jesus Christ, who did, through His transcendent love, become what we are, that He might bring us to be even what He is Himself.”[Primary 2]

“’For we cast blame upon [God], because we have not been made gods from the beginning, but at first merely men, then at length gods; although God has adopted this course out of His pure benevolence, that no one may impute to Him invidiousness or grudgingness he declares, “I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are sons of the Most High.” “[Primary 3]

“For it was necessary, at first, that nature should be exhibited; then, after that, that what was mortal should be conquered and swallowed up by immortality, and the corruptible by incorruptibility, and that man should be made after the image and likeness of God.


654 posted on 05/08/2020 4:14:48 PM PDT by teppe
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To: Elsie; MHGinTN; aMorePerfectUnion; metmom; hondact200; Mark17; ealgeone; SkyDancer

Diefication (Man becoming God) in Early Christianity

Clement of Alexandria (c. 150-215)

“[T]he Word of God became man, that thou mayest learn from man how man may become God.”[Primary 4]

“For if one knows himself, he will know God; and knowing God, he will be made like God”[Primary 5]

“[H]is is beauty, the true beauty, for it is God; and that man becomes God, since God so wills. Heraclitus, then, rightly said, “Men are gods, and gods are men.” For the Word Himself is the manifest mystery: God in man, and man God”[Primary 5]

“[H]e who listens to the Lord, and follows the prophecy given by Him, will be formed perfectly in the likeness of the teacher—made a god going about in flesh.”[Primary 6]
“And to be incorruptible is to participate in divinity...”[Primary 7]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divinization_(Christian)


655 posted on 05/08/2020 4:19:48 PM PDT by teppe
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aMorePerfectUnion

So were the Apostolic Fathers also Non-Christians?

Iraeneus, Clement and Athanasius as well as a dozen others clearly believed similarly to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints that Man can become Gods (Gods ... Not Almighty God the Father of All).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divinization_(Christian)


657 posted on 05/08/2020 4:28:07 PM PDT by teppe
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