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Originally Posted by Unregistered
Dear Confused Skeptics,
Back to an earlier topic, Did not anybody notice that Nigel Tomes completely agrees with Witness Lee on the notion of "God becoming Man that Man may become God in life and nature but not in the Godhead"...You are all such gainsayers, yet I haven't heard a single robust defense or read a single word from any of you (other than that we should all try and be good people and model citizens, then die and go to heaven to play harps with the angels) that even comes close to exhibiting a firm grasp of the overall arc of the Scriptures and of God's chief intention in creation.
So why all the hullabaloo?!!
Why cut off your noses to spite your faces?!!
Come back to your senses, bothers and sisters!
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This may be the wrong thread for this, but I can't bear to slog through Nigel Tomes' tedious articles anymore. I usually feel like he intentionally tries to misunderstand or misrepresent certain things, not realizing that in the eyes of LCers, this kind of misunderstanding or misrepresentation only justifies
their stance and invalidates everything else that he might have to say.
My conclusion about "man becoming God in life and nature but not in the Godhead" is that it is an unnecessarily "shocking" (and possibly in-artful) way of expressing the idea that the believer is born of God with God's life to grow up into that life
without inviolating or compromising God's "God-ness."
I know from experience that rejecting this idea out of hand--without an actual attempt at understanding what is
meant--completely turns off many LCers.