>>19427003Whichever one still believes that Christ came to make men gods. Early church fathers taught divinization.
>Yea, I say, the Word of God became a man so that you might learn from a man how to become a god.Clement of Alexandria
The bible teaches divinisation
>To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.Revelation 3:21
>Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.Galatians 4:7
>Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God.Philippians 2:5-6
God can create new gods. That is the pattern of the Father and Son. When we become as Christ is, we will see it more clearly.
>Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.1 John 3:2
To reject the early Christian doctrine of divinization is to reject the notion that Jesus Christ was both the son of Man and the Son of God. All other religious before and since have taught that God a gulf exists between man and God that cannot be crossed. But consider our ancestor's first steps out the garden of Eden. What does God say?
>And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evilKnowledge of the law was our first step towards godhood. Followed immediately by a realisation of how far we fall short of the law. Through Christ we are redeemed from our fallen nature, made perfect, and can gain eternal life. Eternal doesn't just mean without end, it means without beginning. Only gods are eternal. The angels do not have eternal life, they only minister to those that do. (Hebrews 1:14)
