Biblical evidence for becoming God in life & nature?

[Drake]

Originally Posted by UntoHim

My old friend Drake,
Please spare us the Local Church talking points...you know, the ones you guys use on "new ones" who have no idea of what is really taught and practiced. After all, most of us around here didn't just fall off the Local Church turnip truck last night ya know. Nice try. I guess I shouldn't blame you for trying...but since you're the main LC apologist around here, I think I'll blame you anyway

Nobody has accused Witness Lee or his followers of teaching that believers are to be worshipped as God. That's a strawman and you know it. These absurd claims have been used for decades as a distraction and diversion away from the fact that Lee and his followers have taught a heretical view of God and of man, and of the true, biblical view of God's relationship with his children.

Here are a few quotes that more closely represent what Witness Lee taught, and what his followers have believed for well over a half of a century now:

"Thus, we are the sons of God, just like the only begotten Son of God."
"By His death and resurrection, the Lord released Himself and imparted Himself into us so as to make us exactly the same as He is. He is the Son of God, and He has made us to be the sons of God. He has the life and the nature of God, and He has made us to have the life and the nature of God. He is the very expression and manifestation of God, and He has made us to be the expression and manifestation of God. Therefore, we have the same life, nature, and position that He has."
"Hence, we have what He has, we are where He is, and we are exactly the same as He is.
Life Study of John Message 48

"God can say to His believers, 'I am divine and human,' and His believers can reply, 'Praise You, Lord. You are divine and human, and we are human and divine.'"
The Triune God to Be Life to the Tripartite Man pp. 51-52

"My burden is to show you clearly that God's economy and plan is to make Himself man and to make us, His created beings, 'God,' so that He is 'man-ized' and we are 'God-ized.' In the end, He and we, we and He, all become God-men.
"We the believers are begotten of God. What is begotten of man is man, and what is begotten of God must be God. We are born of God; hence, in this sense, we are God."
A Deeper Study of the Divine Dispensing pp. 53,54
(all emphasis added)
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UntoHim,

The statements you provided explain the same great scriptural truth as the ones I was asked to provide. They are consistent and any of them may be used to describe how the many sons of God become God in life and nature but not in the Godhead.... not only not as an object of worship but not in any of the incommunicable attributes of God in His Godhead. The Bible clearly reveals that God's life and nature are communicable and have been communicated to His regenerated believers. It is in this and only in this sense are we made God. The Bible illustrates the life and nature oneness between God and His believers in many ways - the Church, the counterpart of Christ, being built out of Christ as Eve was from Adam, the Vine and the branches, the universal Head and Body of Christ, the One New Man, the Spirit and the Bride, the Spiritual House of God, the New Jerusalem, the One Grain becoming many grains, and the Firstborn and His many brothers the sons of the Father, etc.. Yet, if the scriptural illustrations are not clear then His direct speaking is unequivocal:

"And I do not ask concerning these only, but concerning those also who believe into Me through their word, that they all may be one; even as you, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us; that the world may believe that you have sent Me. And the glory which you have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, even as We are one; I in them, and You in Me, that they may be perfected into one, that the world may know that you have sent Me and have loved them even as You have loved Me. " John 17:20-23

This is the testimony of scripture.

Drake