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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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To: teppe

Defend your Golden Plates first from where the Book of Mormon came from. You come out saying that Mormonism is Christian because the “church” has Jesus Christ in its name. All you can do is point out various menusha that doesn’t make any point. You defend Mormonism! Tell us all about your god, and your Jesus which both of them are not Biblical at all. They do not exist.


656 posted on 05/08/2020 4:27:38 PM PDT by SkyDancer (~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: teppe
Which portions of LDS scripture do YOU believe?

ALL of it??


 

Now Zeezrom said: Is there more than one God? And he answered, No. (Alma 11:28-29)



Now Joseph conjured:

Doctrine and Covenants:

According to that which was ordained in the midst of the Council of the Eternal God of all other gods before this world was, that should be reserved unto the finishing and the end thereof, when every man shall enter into his eternal presence and into his immortal rest. (Section 121:32)

And again, verily I say unto you, if a man marry a wife, and make a covenant with her for time and for all eternity, if that covenant is not by me or by my word, which is my law, and is not sealed by the Holy Spirit of promise, through him whom I have anointed and appointed unto this power, then it is not valid neither of force when they are out of the world, because they are not joined by me, saith the Lord, neither by my word; when they are out of the world it cannot be received there, because the angels and the gods are appointed there, by whom they cannot pass; they cannot, therefore, inherit my glory; for my house is a house of order, saith the Lord God. And again, verily I say unto you, if a man marry a wife by my word, which is my law, and by the new and everlasting covenant, and it is sealed unto them by the Holy Spirit of promise, by him who is anointed, unto whom I have appointed this power and the keys of this priesthood; and it shall be said unto them--Ye shall come forth in the first resurrection; and if it be after the first resurrection, in the next resurrection; and shall inherit thrones, kingdoms, principalities, and powers, dominions, all heights and depths--then shall it be written in the Lamb's Book of Life, that he shall commit no murder whereby to shed innocent blood, and if ye abide in my covenant, and commit no murder whereby to shed innocent blood, it shall be done unto them in all things whatsoever my servant hath put upon them, in time, and through all eternity; and shall be of full force when they are out of the world; and they shall pass by the angels, and the gods, which are set there, to their exaltation and glory in all things, as hath been sealed upon their heads, which glory shall be a fulness and a continuation of the seeds forever and ever. Then shall they be gods, because they have no end; therefore shall they be from everlasting to everlasting, because they continue; then shall they be above all, because all things are subject unto them. Then shall they be gods, because they have all power, and the angels are subject unto them. (Section 132:18-20)

Abraham received concubines, and they bore him children; and it was accounted unto him for righteousness, because they were given unto him, and he abode in my law; as Isaac also and Jacob did none other things than that which they were commanded; and because they did none other things than that which they were commanded, they have entered into their exaltation, according to the promises, and sit upon thrones, and are not angels but are gods. (Section 132:37)

 

 



 Poor, ol' Zeezrom; fooled by God#n once again...

685 posted on 05/09/2020 4:44:21 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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