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Old 10-24-2021, 10:59 AM   #19
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Default Re: Biblical evidence for becoming God in life & nature?

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Agreed.... The Body never becomes the Head, the branches never become the Vine, and the many grains never become the First Grain, and Eve never becomes Adam, etc.

Nevertheless, the life and nature of the Head and Body are the same, the Vine and the branches share the same life and nature, the many grains we're produced because they share the life and nature of the original Grain,

...and of course Eve has the life and nature of Adam since she was built out of Adam! Though Eve did not become Adam, she became human. We can say, Eve became Adam in his life and nature (human) but not in what makes Adam uniquely Adam.

Likewise, the sons of God, the many brothers of the Firstborn, also share the life and nature of God..... when humans receive this divine life and divine nature through regeneration then these humans by natural birth also become divine by the new birth (regeneration). This birth brings in the oneness between the Triune God and the believers prayed for by the Lord Jesus in John 17.

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Your analogies to produce your conclusion simply don't work, Drake.

Eve didn't become Adam. At all. Nowhere does the Bible say Eve became Adam. Nowhere does anyone say Eve became Adam. No one says this. Anywhere. This is not a teaching found in the church....that "Eve became Adam" even if you tack qualifiers on it. No one says "Eve became Adam in life and nature" because that is not what happened. You know that and we know that.

If you say "Eve did not become Adam, she became human" then use the same construction for your strange "become God" claim: "We do not become God, we become ......" What's a better way to finish this sentence, Drake?

Well....here might be a good time to look at what the Bible says.....we become "partakers of the divine nature."

We have words for what you say you mean but refuse to use. Things like "the human race" or "humankind". You have the opportunity to use words like "part of the divine family" or "take on a spiritual body" or any number of things that are much more scriptural that are not "become God", but local church proponents simply cannot suffer to admit that the teachings in the local church go. too. far.

Eve does not "have the life and nature of Adam". She is a human like Adam is. She has a human life like Adam does. She has the same type of life Adam does. She is part of the human race like Adam is. But none of these things are "having the life and nature of Adam" and certainly none of these things are "becoming Adam in life and nature".

Come on. When I state clearly what you say you are saying and juxtapose it against the words you use rather than the words you should use, it's patently obvious how silly the claim is.

All the analogies you provide that you say render biblical support actually show clearly that the conclusion doesn't work.

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