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Originally Posted by Unregistered
For Evangelical,
Your tone in your last sentence to Ohio and it's content are inappropriate and rude. There is no way that ANYONE can be aware of all the "facts" and none of us can afford to take the position of "schoolmaster" sending an inferior "student" back to the books. If you are aware of some "facts", just share them.
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Ohio called the local churches an "aberrant cult" like the Mormons, knowing full well the facts of this teaching existing in the early church and in Orthodoxy. I knew that Ohio wasn't posting out of ignorance, but out of deception, given that he knew already that the teaching and forms of it was existing in the early church and the Orthodox church, and any church which respects Athanasius. But he decided to claim that "only aberrant cults" like the Mormons believe in this teaching.
The facts are all over the internet about this:
St. Maximus the Confessor wrote:
A sure warrant for looking forward
with hope to deification of human nature is provided by the Incarnation of God,
which makes man God to the same degree as God Himself became man ... . Let us become the image of the one whole God, bearing nothing earthly in ourselves, so that we may consort with God and become gods, receiving from God our existence as gods. For it is clear that He Who became man without sin (cf. Heb. 4:15) will divinize human nature without changing it into the Divine Nature, and will raise it up for His Own sake to the same degree as He lowered Himself for man's sake. This is what St[.] Paul teaches mystically when he says, '[]that in the ages to come he might display the overflowing richness of His grace' (Eph. 2:7)[6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theosi...stian_theology)