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What's up with this? Cat 1999 and 1988 also support this view. I'm new to this. I found out i was debating a fellow Catholic and I didn't know it. I don't know completely whether this is true or not. (sorry I'm a lil on the skeptical side because I've never heard this before).

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Fides_et_Ratio

Yep, it's true!

We went over it in my theology class my first semester at college.. I'll see if I can dig up my notes, as they explained it rather well (or so it was at least far more understandable to me!)

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phatcatholic

yes, very true. [url="http://phorum.phatmass.com/index.php?showtopic=15222"][b]this thread[/b][/url] explains it all

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Fides_et_Ratio

oh, and it's also in the Scriptures:
2Pe 1:4 By whom he hath given us most great and precious promises: that by these [b]you may be made partakers of the divine nature[/b]: flying the corruption of that concupiscence which is in the world.


I'm not finding my notes, but I'm pretty sure it has a lot to do with Christ's humanity... something like by His humanity (and salvific deed), all of humanity is fully restored in the resurrection of the body--we are made perfect, and thus, by a sharing in God's perfection we are made divine. Something like that. Hopefully I'm not too off the mark. :unsure:

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Fides_et_Ratio

[quote name='phatcatholic' date='Jan 8 2005, 01:22 AM'] yes, very true. [url="http://phorum.phatmass.com/index.php?showtopic=15222"][b]this thread[/b][/url] explains it all [/quote]
and there you go.


phatcatholic... you have all the answers. No fair! ;)

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phatcatholic

[quote name='Fides_et_Ratio' date='Jan 8 2005, 12:26 AM'] and there you go.


phatcatholic... you have all the answers. No fair! ;) [/quote]
i'm just cool like that :cool:

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Earlier I talked to Apotheon thinking i was talking to one of my friends (who's anti Catholic since she had a name similar to it hahaha). Thanks a lot all of you (especailly Apotheon for helping me learn more about this).

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[quote name='phatcatholic' date='Jan 8 2005, 03:06 AM'] i wanna be cool like apotheoun one day........:sadder: [/quote]
Hey, you [i]are[/i] cool! Wasn't there a whole thread about it? ^_^

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EcceNovaFacioOmni

I'm doing that Bible and Catechism reading plan and I stumbled on this in today's readings:
[quote][i]From the Catechism:[/i]
[u]51[/u] "It pleased God, in his goodness and wisdom, to reveal himself and to make known the mystery of his will. His will was that men should have access to the Father, through Christ, the Word made flesh, in the Holy Spirit, [b]and thus become sharers in the divine nature[/b]."[/quote]
[quote]By whom he hath given us most great and precious promises: that by these [b]you may be made partakers of the divine nature[/b]: flying the corruption of that concupiscence which is in the world.
2 Peter 1:4[/quote]

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phatcatholic

[quote name='cmotherofpirl' date='Jan 8 2005, 11:05 AM'] Ok , but don't confuse this with the mormon notion we all become little Gods and get our own planet. [/quote]
i think that apotheoun addresses this distinction somewhere in the thread i linked to earlier.

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