 |       KJV Bible Believer: 79...... 6 years ago • Report 0  Christology: This is a misunderstanding. The Roman Catechism is quoting the 4th century church father St. Athanasius who wrote "God became man so that man might become god”. The capital G in "God" is a mistranslation of the latin. No one with the exception of the Mormons understands this statement as suggesting we can become the divine Essence of God! It is merely alluding to what 2 Peter said in 1:14 "we become partakers of the divine essence". We partake in the divine essence by Grace, we do not become God in His essence. There is only 1 God. Here is St Athanasius in his own words: "For as, although there be one Son by nature, True and Only-begotten, we too become sons, not as He in nature and truth, but according to the grace of Him that calls, and though we are men from the earth, are yet called gods, not as the True God or His Word, but as has pleased God who has given us that grace; so also, as God do we become merciful, not by being made equal to God, nor becoming in nature and truth benefactors (for it is not our gift to benefit but belongs to God), but in order that what has accrued to us from God Himself by grace, these things we may impart to others, without making distinctions, but largely towards all extending our kind service. For only in this way can we anyhow become imitators, and in no other, when we minister to others what comes from Him." |
