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To: Jvette
>>The Church never has and never will claim that any created human can become God. On its face it is just silly to claim that is our belief.<<

It’s rather specifically stated and you may note the capitol G as well.

CCC 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

You will have a rather difficult time convincing people that what they say is not what they mean.

199 posted on 10/30/2011 8:37:35 PM PDT by CynicalBear
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To: CynicalBear

There is only one God.

Is it your claim that the Church teaches that we can all become God? Really? Again, silly to the extreme.

Tell me, CB, are you perfectly united to God as Jesus was?

Or do you understand that as long as we are separated from Him by our sinful states, we cannot fully grasp the perfection and glory of God?

Though Jesus paid in full for our sins so that we may one day share in His glory, we are not and cannot be perfect while in our bodies. We must certainly strive for such perfection, but without grace, we cannot hope to even come close.

It will only be in death, when our souls are released from the carnal world that we can be fully united to God, one with Him, as we praise Him forever in heaven.

“That they may be one, as you and I are one.”


238 posted on 10/31/2011 5:55:18 PM PDT by Jvette
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