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Originally Posted by Unregistered
Being sanctified completely means we will become God in his sanctified nature, which means we will become him in his nature.
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And training a monkey to talk means that it has become a human in nature. NOT.
This line of reasoning begins with a presumption that is not made in scripture — that man is incapable of righteousness and therefore must be replaced by God, thereby becoming God in some way, to be obedient to the command to be holy.
But throughout scripture God has said, both to the people of the OT and to those who followed and/or heard Jesus, to obey, be righteous, prefer justice (not American justice, but justice toward the widow, orphan, poor, alien), and so forth. When Jesus said it, he did not then do an aside to the closest disciples and say "and now watch them fail miserably until I die and resurrect and can get into them." It is true that this was a tremendous help in the process. But where is the replacement theology coming from?
Is this all about us becoming more than Adam was before the fall? Or restoring us to that place? If the former, then was Adam God in nature? Nothing convinces me that is so.
But a man who despised so much of the righteousness of God tells us that he, and we, become God in sanctification. I don't think so. (Actually, I don't think Lee would know what sanctification was if God appeared to him in broad daylight and spelled it out. He would reject it as a trick of Satan.) The scripture ways that we gain some of His nature, not that we become God (or god). We become more Christ
like, not more Christ. We become more what we were made to be — humans, on the earth, exercising authority over the earth, and having God as our source of knowledge of right and wrong, good and evil.
Man can partake of the nature of God without becoming God. Lee's version is a claim not supported by scripture.