This author? That is from the Catholic Catechism for crying out loud.
LOL I read it.
>>I can only assure you that the church most emphatically does not teach that we can become God.<<
Don’t you recognize the CCC as in Catholic Church Catechism?
The catechism attributes that quote to St. Athanasius from his work defining his theology of divinization, so he would be the author, not the catechism.
As I said, I cannot fully quote the piece nor explain it.
But, from what I understand of it.
The author is saying that we become God in the sense that we are adopted as His sons and daughters through our faith in Jesus.
Jesus tells us to be perfect as God is perfect, yet we have no hope of that on our own. It is this adoption, through the sacrifice of Jesus that makes us perfect in God’s eyes, as Jesus, God, is perfect.
It is only through His grace that we can hope for eternal life with the Holy Trinity.
Hebrews 11:1 — Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.
Life where we will no longer have any human defects which separate us from Him. Life where we are perfectly united to Him.