do we become divine?

[Apotheoun]

[quote name='phatcatholic' date='Jan 8 2005, 01:10 PM'] [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. [/quote]
For more information you can also go to my website and read the threads I wrote on Mary's divinization by grace, because in the first thread I deny any association of the Catholic doctrine of [i]theosis[/i] with the Mormon doctrine of eternal progression. Click the link below:

[url="http://www.geocities.com/apotheoun/theosis"]The Doctrine of Theosis[/url]

[phatcatholic]

well, there ya have it

[cathqat]

[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've always wondered why this idea appealed to Mormon women, since, acording to this view, only male gods get worshipped and female gods spend eternity giving birth.

Even my friends who enjoy pregnancy think that's a bit too much to take.

[Benedict]

Not to be too insulting but the whole of Mormon theology is rather "stupid" and at times "arrogant". They make God into a man, and man into a god, to remove any mystery, anything that is difficult to comprehend. They reject a lot of the philosophical aspects of theology like substance and the infinite.

[franciscanheart]

whoa. the things you learn on the apo board!

[musturde]

So this whole thing is an explanation of what we call "glorified bodies"? If that's true then that explains why they call them "glorified". Thnx again guys.

Pax Christi

[phatcatholic]

[quote name='musturde' date='Jan 9 2005, 01:18 AM'] So this whole thing is an explanation of what we call "glorified bodies"? If that's true then that explains why they call them "glorified". Thnx again guys.

Pax Christi [/quote]
well, it describes our state in heaven [i][b]before[/b][/i] we receive our glorified bodies as well

[Apotheoun]

[quote name='Fides_et_Ratio' date='Jan 7 2005, 10:24 PM'] 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. [/quote]
Perhaps you're thinking of what the priest says during the offertory of the Roman Rite Mass while he is preparing the gifts: "By the mystery of this water and wine may we come to share in the divinity of Christ, who humbled Himself to share in our humanity."