You are my witnesses, says the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen, that you may know and believe me, and understand that I am he. Before me there was no God formed, nor shall there be after me Isaiah Humankind, on the other hand, is a finite limited creature.
There was a time when humanity did not exist. When humankind came into being it was because of the will of God. Humanity cannot exist by themself. Humans are not self-sustaining. We need food, air, water, to stay alive.
Without these and other things humanity would perish. But this will not mean humans will become God. Each individual must depend upon God for everlasting life. Those who promise that humans can become God either do not understand the differences between the creature and the Creator or are deliberately perverting the truth of God. It is impossible for human beings to become God. This false promise was given to Eve back in the Garden of Eden.
The reason humans cannot become God has to do with the nature of God. God, is God by nature. He did not become God at some certain point in time. Human beings are finite.
There was a time when human beings did not exist but there has never been a time when God has not existed. It is the difference between the creature and the Creator.
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But Jesus was not commenting on the question of what we will be in the resurrection. In context, it refers to unjust human judges Psalm , 7. Jesus says the following in John As the psalm says, they were mortal.
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These passages can be interpreted in different ways. Many other Christians read the same passages far more metaphorically because they experience the Bible through the lens of doctrinal interpretations that developed over time after the period described in the New Testament.
Latter-day Saint beliefs would have sounded more familiar to the earliest generations of Christians than they do to many modern Christians. Many church fathers influential theologians and teachers in early Christianity spoke approvingly of the idea that humans can become divine. What exactly the early church fathers meant when they spoke of becoming God is open to interpretation, 15 but it is clear that references to deification became more contested in the late Roman period and were infrequent by the medieval era.
The first known objection by a church father to teaching deification came in the fifth century. Why did these beliefs fade from prominence? Changing perspectives on the creation of the world may have contributed to the gradual shift toward more limited views of human potential.
The earliest Jewish and Christian commentaries on the Creation assumed that God had organized the world out of preexisting materials, emphasizing the goodness of God in shaping such a life-sustaining order.
It became important in Christian circles to assert that God had originally been completely alone. Creation ex nihilo widened the perceived gulf between God and humans. It became less common to teach either that human souls had existed before the world or that they could inherit and develop the attributes of God in their entirety in the future. But revelations received by Joseph Smith diverged from the prevailing ideas of the time and taught doctrine that, for some, reopened debates on the nature of God, creation, and humankind.
Early revelations to Joseph Smith taught that humans are created in the image of God and that God cares intimately for His children. In , Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon experienced a vision of the afterlife. Joseph Smith continued to receive revelation on the themes of divine nature and exaltation during the last two years of his life.
He used the occasion in part to reflect upon the death of a Church member named King Follett, who had died unexpectedly a month earlier. Human nature was at its core divine. The process would be ongoing and would require patience, faith, continuing repentance, obedience to the commandments of the gospel, and reliance on Christ.
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