There is a difference between God the Almighty and gods.
“Ye are gods.”
We are promised that we can inherit all that the Father hath. We are commanded to be perfect, even as our Father in Heaven is perfect. Why can He not, and as a loving Father why would he not, share his glory and godhood with his children?
Where in the scriptures does God say that He does NOT want His children to become like Him?
We can be “like” Him, but we cannot be “gods”.
There is only one God.
He repeated throughout old and new testament there is only one God.
Inheriting from the Father does not make us gods.
Sharing in his wonderful gifts does not make us gods.
And even when our souls are purified and we are rid of all the “muck” of this world - we still will not be gods.
We will always remain souls that were created by Him to share love with him, to be part of His family.
We will never be gods.
Writings of early christians...
http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2
there was no apostasy, otherwise I’m wondering who was burying their dead here in the first centuries of christianity...
http://www.catacombe.roma.it/en/spiritualita.html
a better link to the catacombe site to get access to all the info...
http://www.catacombe.roma.it/index.html
I’m fading fast and am calling it a night.
here are articles concerning monotheism (note the section regarding “christian monotheism”)
and the Blessed Trinity.
While these are catholic sites, I cannot think of any christian denomination that would disagree with the points made regarding christian monotheism and the Trinity.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10499a.htm
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15047a.htm
Good night
This is the fundamental disconnect between orthodox monotheistic religions (Christianity and Judaism) and Mormonism.
God cannot "share godhood" with human beings, for the simple reason that the essential and defining attribute of divinity is uncreated eternal existence.
Can God make you uncreated? Of course not; the question is its own contradiction. Can God make you eternal? We, he can, and did, make you so that you will live forever, but that's not quite the same as making you eternal, because you started at a point in time. God cannot "make you eternal," in the sense of eternally pre-existent, because, again, it's a contradiction in terms. The act of "making" automatically implies that you didn't exist before you were made.
God, on the other hand, was never made uncreated, and that's exactly the point: God was never made. He just eternally is. "I AM WHO AM." God the Father was not made. God the Son was not made ("begotten, not made, before all the ages," says the Nicene Creed.). God the Holy Spirit was not made.
The "godhood" you describe is the godhood of polytheistic paganism, which is not godhood at all, but simply an order of created being higher than that of human beings.
Orthodox Christians know of such an order of created being. We call the good ones, "angels". Some of them are fallen. Those are "demons".
Think of who might want you to worship a being which is not God, but merely of a higher order of created existence than humans. Hint: it's not going to be a good angel who wants that.
Ya done with that first one yet??
Where?
Isaiah 43:10 (King James Version)
10 Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
There is no waiting list to become a God.
Cordially,