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Originally Posted by JJ
In the local churches, the error we made (and I include myself, because I "bought it") was not realizing that partaking of the divine nature isn't something that we have fully done yet (and won't until Jesus returns). And even when we have, it looks like Jesus, a man willing to drop his Godhood and die for others, be glorified later... and that glorification glorifies God (versus us, because he is the source of it all).
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Philippians 2 is a passage that I appreciate very much, and it really demonstrates just how absurd WL’s deification theology really is. Of all people, Jesus was the one person who had every right to go around and promote himself as the “acting God” on earth, but he didn’t do that. As it says, Jesus
did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation... This is the Jesus whom the apostle Paul considered himself to be an imitator of.
While LCers are busy trying to
become God in life and nature but not the Godhead, they have forgotten about Jesus' example and message. Jesus was willing to take the form of a bondservant. He was self-emptying. He set forth an example of humility. This is the example that we have to follow.