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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: teppe

Nice try.

Totally false.


659 posted on 05/08/2020 4:29:15 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (I'd rather be anecdotally alive than scientifically dead...)
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To: teppe
Man may become Gods (NOT God the Father!) in Early Christianity.

Sorry dude; but NONE of that is Scripture.

Try again.

684 posted on 05/09/2020 4:38:34 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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