He is going to make us into creatures that can obey that command. He said (in the Bible) that we were “gods” and he is going to make good His words. If we let Him - for we can prevent Him, if we choose
Where did the highly respected C.S. Lewis get such doctrine? This quote taken from Beyond Personality, Lewis’s context comes in a chapter called “Counting the Cost,” and describes the process of sanctification that God begins at the moment one becomes a Christian and will continue until we are reunited after death and the judgment with our resurrected bodies, when we will be “perfect,” that is, “complete,” as creatures. In fact, the sentence immediately preceding this is “He is going to make us into creatures that can obey that command.” In the same small volume he explains,
What God begets is God; just as what man begets is man. What God creates is not God; just as what man makes is not man. That is why men are not Sons of God in the sense that Christ is. They may be like God in certain ways, but they are not things of the same kind. They are more like statues or pictures of God. (Lewis, Beyond Personality)
It is important that citations be placed in their proper context, otherwise they are used inaccurately and incorrectly. The greater citation by Lewis shows he never supported the mormon doctrine of exaltation.
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Mere Christianity page 157- 159 CLICK Picture
