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Genesis 3:5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

The Catholic Church says:
CCC 460 "For the Son of God became man so that we might become God."

Eerily similar language it seems to me.

731 posted on 01/13/2012 5:22:29 AM PST by CynicalBear
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I will accfept this as your admission of error since I asked you not to contqact me unless you were willing to admit your error.
Thank you.


734 posted on 01/13/2012 5:43:26 AM PST by verga (We get what we tolerate and increase that which we reward)
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CCC 460 The Word became flesh to make us “partakers of the divine nature” ... etc. For the Son of God became man so that we might become God. ...”

St. Athanasius is not saying we will be gods ourselves, although it appears that way if we only take that one quote out of context - Athanasius also says God gave himself to us through the Spirit. By participation of the Spirit, we become communicants in the divine nature ...”

Athanasius means that the Holy Spirit within us allows us to share in God’s divine nature - without the Holy Spirit we we would just be animals. That is the point Athanasius is trying to make, although the simplistic way it is worded is unfortunate. The CCC is a post Vatican II document and has some questionable aspects - that is another topic altogether.

The Catholic Church does not teach that we will bcome gods and never has. The Mormons do this.

If we are saved we become saints in heaven.


735 posted on 01/13/2012 5:48:02 AM PST by stonehouse01
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