Yes, that's an error on my part; but (But! But!) it is occasioned by the point that you STILL have not clarified, which is: what do you think the Catholic Church means by its doctrine on "theosis"? Is it polytheism (which I perhaps too-hastily supposed is what you think)? Or is it absorption into the Godhead and personal extinction? Or is it something else?
You can't judge a doctrine until you have an adequate understanding of what it means.
So would you please answer that question? Because you can't critique what you can't define.
I would have no idea what the Catholic Church means by its doctrine. Once again we can only go to scripture to know what we should believe. Scripture clearly shows men who have been called gods to be representatives or emissaries of God in that we are to carry out His will and commands.
The Greek word used in 2 Peter 1:4 is “theias” and is an adjective (not a noun) which means that we can exhibit some of the attributes of God. In other words we can manifest the characteristics of God’s nature. Examples would be love, charity or other attributes described in Matthew 5. It does not use the word “theos”. One thing we need to keep in mind is that any “attributes” of God that we show spring from the indwelling of the Spirit of God within us and not of ourselves. Thus in the case of Crouch and others who tend to claim that “theias” for themselves rather than attributing it to the Spirit of God within them is telling. Is the Catholic Church attributing those attributes and the “theosis” of man to that indwelling Spirit or to man himself?