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To: CynicalBear

Yet Jesus prayed that we would be one, as He and the Father are one. He prayed that we would abide in Him and He in us as the Father abides in Him.

It is silly beyond belief and I can’t say it enough to think that the church teaches that we become God in the sense in which you would like to think.

When Jesus confronts Paul, He says, “Saul, why do you persecute me?” but Saul had not persecuted Jesus. He was persecuting His followers.


245 posted on 10/31/2011 6:36:06 PM PDT by Jvette
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To: Jvette
Read it again.

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

It doesn’t say “one with God” and it goes beyond being “sons of God” because it said that in the previous sentence then went one step further. You cannot read it any other way.

247 posted on 10/31/2011 6:41:21 PM PDT by CynicalBear
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