Unless you can provide a link to the Catechism of the Catholic Church and not not the "Let Us Reason" website (which is all that came up on this quote) I would say it's a lie.
Now that is really fascinating. I am thrilled you are skeptical of that paragraph from your church's catechism. It is dreadful, isn't it?
But as you can see from subsequent Catholic posters' comments, that is indeed Catholic dogma from the catechism.
And FYI, I did not post from the thread you linked to. I didn't need to. You simply go to Google and insert a phrase or a number along with "catechism of the catholic religion" and you come up with sites such as this one straight from the Vatican which is the one I used...
"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"
As you can see, word for word, according to Rome.
Although it doesn't sound any better from Rome than it does from anywhere else. It's still anti-Scriptural and thus, wrong.
You don't have to apologize to me for incorrectly attributing that website to my post. We all learn from our mistakes, God willing (the One and only God.)
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"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"
WOW !
Not in my Bible
b'SHEM Yah'shua
Sorry FRiend.
But when I have to do a Google search to find what’s in the Catechism, and all they have are non-Catholic sites, I’m going to believe that it is a lie.
However, if you actually link to the catechism, as you did here, I can consider it.
I would need this confirmation whether it was a speech from GWB, a quote from James Marsden or the Catechism. Give the source, not someone else quoting the source and we don’t have those problems.
It is not the Catechism of the Catholic Faith.
It is the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
That is a reference to 2Peter 1-4 that says this. "4 Through these, he has bestowed on us the precious and very great promises, so that through them you may come to share in the divine nature, after escaping from the corruption that is in the world because of evil desire." So, divine nature is from Peter. If anyone has a problem with it, perhaps it should be taken up with him.
No wonder the Mormons are so successful with converting Catholics
***For the Son of man became man so that we might become God. 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”***
Salt Lake City, meet Rome.
"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"
Wow -- the title of this thread should be: Do Catholics consider Mormons Catholics???
And since this is in the Catechism then all Catholics are required to accept this or they are not Catholics no matter how many sacraments they receive.