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Originally Posted by Sheepdawg
I wonder what you suppose 'like Him' means? Will we be photocopies of Him? Will we be some cheap knock-offs of Him? Have you ever considered what we will be made of -or 'constituted' with- that it should be said of us that we are ACTUALLY 'like Him'?
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Lee so liked to go "back to the beginning" on things. And this is a good place for that.
In the beginning, God created man in His image or likeness. Did that make us God? Of course not. But we were created with his likeness. We were intended to be like Him, and to represent Him.
Then things "went South" as they sometimes say. We ceased to bear his likeness — be like Him.
But now we have that chance again. And it is about what we do here on earth, not about what we will look like in the age to come.
But the key is that both the original state and the renewed state are not of a different kind. We are restored to our place as bearers of the image and likeness of God. If they were of a different kind, then it would be important for something to tell us that and none of us have found such a think in the Bible. So we have no basis for thinking we get more than we had in the first place.
Nowhere in that is there a presumption, or need for, "becoming God in life and nature but not in the Godhead." As Igzy well put it, that is beyond what is written. I do not know everything that bearing God's image entails. But it is not presumptively becoming God in any way, shape, or form. And the Bible says nothing about it, so nothing to hang such a teaching on.