Is Theosis Taught By The Roman Catholic Church

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Is it?

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someone voted!!!!


explain yourself!!

[CatholicCid]

Wikipedia seemed to say yes.
And there was a button... I had to push it.

Edited September 20, 2007 by CatholicCid

[Thy Geekdom Come]

Didn't you read my thesis?

[Mateo el Feo]

[quote name='CatholicCid' post='1389304' date='Sep 20 2007, 06:10 PM']Wikipedia seemed to say yes.
And there was a button... I had to push it.[/quote][i]Wikipedia locuta est, causa finita est.[/i]

Otherwise, I recall some anti-Catholic apologists attacking a paragraph from the Catechism ([url="http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt1sect2chpt2art3.htm#460"]link[/url]):[quote][b]460 [/b]
The Word became flesh to make us "[i]partakers of the divine nature[/i]": "For this is why the Word became man, and the Son of God became the Son of man: so that man, by entering into communion with the Word and thus receiving divine sonship, might become a son of God." "For the Son of God became man so that we might become God." "The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in his divinity, assumed our nature, so that he, made man, might make men gods."[/quote]The first sentence contains a direct quote from [url="http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/2peter/2peter1.htm#v4"]2 Peter 1:4[/url].

[CatherineM]

It is my understanding that the Greek Orthodox church teaches that Jesus would have become incarnate for this reason alone even if Adam and Eve had never sinned.