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
Saint Irenaeus
- “Do we cast blame on him [God] because we were not made gods at our beginning, but first we were made men, then, in the end, gods?’ (Against Heresies 4, 38)
- How then will any be a god, if he has not first been made a man? (Henry Bettenson, The Early Christian Fathers: A Selection from the Writings of the Fathers from St. Clement of Rome to St. Athanasius (London: Oxford University Press, 1956)
Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria
- “The Word was made flesh in order that we might be enabled to be made gods. . . . Just as the Lord, putting on the body, became a man, so also we men are both deified through his flesh, and henceforth inherit everlasting life.” Athanasius, Against the Arians, 1.39, 3.39.
Augustine of Hippo
- “But he himself that justifies also deifies, for by justifying he makes sons of God. ‘For he has given them power to become the sons of God’ [John 1:12]. If then we have been made sons of god, we have also been made gods...” Augustine, On the Psalms, 50:2.
Aren’t those all “Catholic Church” views?
becoming “partakers of the divine nature” does not make one god.
it has been pointed out to you before, but you continue to do the will of the father of lies.
keep it up.
Not that you might care to, CB, but for those who honestly do wish to understand what is referred to here, this can serve as a primer:
In Christian theology, divinization, deification, making divine or theosis is the transforming effect of divine grace.[1] This concept of salvation is historical and fundamental for Christian understanding that is prominent in the Eastern Orthodox Church and also in the Catholic Church,[2][3] and is a doctrine of growing importance in certain Protestant denominations, being revived in Anglicanism in the mid-19th century.[1]…
The Mormon and Catholic/Orthodox views of Theosis have nothing in common with each other.
http://orthodoxwiki.org/Theosis#Deification_in_Mormonism
The Mormon Research Ministry, an Evangelical anti-Mormon missionary outfit, sees a distinct difference between the traditional definition of “theosis” and the Mormon corruption of the doctrine.
http://www.mrm.org/exaltation