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"The soul is magnifying a creature above her status, to demi goddess status."

It is God Who exalts His handmaid, not I.

And not a demigoddess.... not as the world thinks of it.

What do you suppose St. Peter means when he says,

2 Peter 1:4
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.

Or what did St. Paul mean by this?

Ephesians 4:13
until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God, as we mature to the full measure of the stature of Christ.
Ephesians 4:24
and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.

Or what is St. John talking about here?

1 John 3:2
Beloved, we are now children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when Christ appears, we will be like Him, for we will see Him as He is.

Demigoddess, you say? Aphrodite in her nightie? The fault with that is, it owes too much to a Wonder Woman comic-book imagery. It's too little. What paltry understanding we have, of what God has prepared for those who love him.

You have no idea.

Sorry, teacher, it is you who have NO IDEA!

Mrs Don-o: "What do you suppose St. Peter means when he says,"

2 Peter 1:4
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.

MHGinTN: When I was born from above, born again, God bestowed upon me the Holy Spirit seal upon my before dead spirit, making me alive in Christ and in God's hands. And He is mighty to keep me His. This is the very same thing He does with any born again believers faithing in Jesus.

Mrs Don-o: "Or what is St. John talking about here?"

1 John 3:2
Beloved, we are now children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when Christ appears, we will be like Him, for we will see Him as He is.

MHGinTN: IF you believed in the coming Rapture of ALL believers both living and dead, you would have a basis to understand what 1John3 is saying! You would immediately connect 1John3 to 1Thess 4:13-17 and 1 Cor 15:51-53. To discern such connections requires an alive spirit, for spiritual things are discerned by the spirit not just the intellect.

As Jesus is now, in His fullness, you and I cannot see Him fully for we are of different spacetime coordinates/variables, and He is of greater spacetime variability. Paul tells us in 1Cor 15 that in the twinkling of an eye we shall be changed into the same coordinate variables of Jesus's nature now, in His ascended state.

Because we will be changed into the same coordinate system which Jesus inhabits, we will see Him as He really is.

When God walked the earth as Jesus, the disciples asked Him to show them the Father Almighty and they would be satisfied that He / Jesus, is Messiah (John 14). They could only sense God with eyes and ears and touch where GOD inhabited their limits, their spacetime coordinate system AS JESUS.

The coordinate system Jesus's Body is in Now allows Him to appear and disappear and so many other capabilities that you could not comprehend. Even Mary is not yet in that coordinate system that will be revealed to us in the Rapture of HIS CHURCH when we are transformed in a moment in the twinkling of an eye.

You teach a hollow belief system, an 'other religion' (as Paul put it) infected with heresies and blasphemies which have accumulated in Catholicism since the beginning of the second century and were percolating at the end of the first century as attested by the Revelation Jesus gave to John regarding the seven churches, seven gatherings of believers.