>>Footnotes? <<
Well, what do you know!!!! Where I looked it had footnote numbers. And let me tell you I’ve seen lots of copies of the CCC. Guess that’s why I use Vatican.va.
Had someone posted this without a link, I would have surely questioned it. Which is a great lesson in linking to your sources!
It’s so easy to just go to the top of the browser, double click the address (it will turn color), hit Ctrl+C, put your cursor on the dialog box and hit Ctrl+V.
Ta-da, source linked!!!!
I admit I complained that the good Mom and Dr. were carrying the subject too far. I was wrong.
I now agree with Mom that posting the Catechism without the proper footnotes is misleading. After all, the footnotes are critical to the understanding of the subject at hand.
Of course it is a requirement that each footnote be read and understood, otherwise they serve no purpose.
I have taken the liberty of posting the "correct" version of CCC #460 with footnotes. I certainly hope it clears up all misunderstandings.
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
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78 2 Pt 1:4
2 Peter 1:
4 by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, that through these you may escape from the corruption that is in the world because of passion, and become partakers of the divine nature.
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79 St. Irenaeus, Adv. haeres. 3, 19, 1: PG 7/1, 939P
'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.'[St. Irenaeus, Adv. haeres. 3, 19, 1: PG 7/1, 939.]
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80 St. Athanasius, De inc. 54, 3: PG 25, 192B.
'For the Son of God became man so that we might become God.'[St. Athanasius, De inc. 54, 3: PG 25, 192B.]
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81 St. Thomas Aquinas, Opusc. 57, 1-4.
'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.'[St. Thomas Aquinas, Opusc. 57, 1-4.]"
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