Bible Answer Man Converts to Eastern Orthodox!

[Ohio]

Originally Posted by A little brother

Good point. In Acts 14, when the people in Lystra thought Barnabas and Paul were gods and wanted to worship them, why didn't they take the opportunity to preach the high peak truth? - "You people are wrong. You should not worship me. But you are half right. We are no Zeus or Hermes, but we are men becoming God in live and in nature but not in the Godhead."

Instead, their reply was "Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men of like feeling as you, and announce the gospel to you that you should turn from these vain things to the living God, who made heaven and earth and the sea and all things in them;..." (Acts 14:15)

Brother John So, the excommunicated LC co-worker in Germany, who was also related to W. Lee by marriage, wrote a paper titled "I MYSELF ALSO AM A MAN" in 1994.

[awareness]

Originally Posted by Ohio

Brother John So, the excommunicated LC co-worker in Germany, who was also related to W. Lee by marriage, wrote a paper titled "I MYSELF ALSO AM A MAN" in 1994.

How's this about theosis? :

"It is true that its natural being, though thus transformed, is as distinct from the Being of God as it was before". - St. John of the Cross

There's a realist fer ya ... and an honest Catholic priest.

[Evangelical]

Originally Posted by awareness

How's this about theosis? :

"It is true that its natural being, though thus transformed, is as distinct from the Being of God as it was before". - St. John of the Cross

There's a realist fer ya ... and an honest Catholic priest.

"distinct from the Being of God " = "but not in the Godhead"

Some quotes from Lee that agree :

"Only God is God, only God has the nature of God, and only God is transcendent and distinctive; therefore, only God is divine."

"Because we partake of the divine nature, it can rightly be said that we are divine. However, this definitely does not mean that we are evolving into God "


We can see that Lee uses the term "being divine" to not mean "being God Himself" but as partaking of the divine nature.