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Athanasius stated, "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 also observed: "For the Son of God became man so that we might become God."
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First, no matter how great Athanasius was, does God say "For the Son of God became man so that we might become God?"
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Originally Posted by Unregistered
It is the teaching of the Bible.
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Can you show me the verses, please?
I can find justification, regeneration, adoption, sanctification, glorified, but I can't find deify.
Here is an article to share with you:
https://www.gotquestions.org/deification.html
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What the Eastern Orthodox Church calls “deification” might be understood by evangelicals as the new birth and subsequent sanctification. But the Orthodox concept of deification takes sanctification further to include a mystical union with God. The biggest problem with the doctrine is not the term deification but the means to it, as taught by the Eastern Orthodox Church. According to the New Testament, we are united with Christ, filled with the fullness of God, filled with the Holy Spirit, and declared to be right with God on the basis of faith in Christ. It is not something that happens as the result of a (perhaps) lifelong pursuit of unity with God through effort and discipline. In Christ we have become “partakers of the divine nature” (2 Peter 1:14). The actual experience of this can ebb and flow, but the fact of it never changes.
The great question that must be answered by every religion that takes a holy God seriously is “how can a sinful man stand before God and be fully justified?” There are really only two answers. Either God accepts the sinner based on some effort on the part of the sinner to attain a state of righteousness or God accepts the sinner on the basis of Christ’s righteousness credited to the sinner. Unfortunately, the Eastern Orthodox process of deification seems to fall squarely within the first option.
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Originally Posted by unregistered
Looks like you need some eyesalve that you may see the intentions and motives of these two brothers, huh?
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Of course, we buy eyesalve from the Holy Spirit but not from man.
Num.23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie.
Rom.3:4 let God be true, but every man a liar;