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[–]whereswhat 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Thank you for posting this. There are quite a few people on this site who really need to see these words.

For me, this brought to mind a quote from myself shortly after I joined this site:

Calm down and live life. If you are consumed with paranoia, the overlords win.

[–]Jesus 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Certainly true. Fear not.

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Okay

[–]Jesus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeshua, emmanuel was the Son of Man and in his perfect nature became the Son of God. He was talking to the Jews when he was referring to Psalms as "Ye are Gods?" In question form! The translations are very iffy but if we look at original texts and compre to other quotations from Yeshua we see he was referring to Sons of God, ie. angels. That is to follow his way, his instructions, "The Way," to become a son of God.

We have the privilege of addressing God as our Father because we have faith in Him and are seeking to do His will. We share the same relationship with the Father as Jesus did, therefore we are called His children, His sons (John 1:12, 13; Romans 8:14, 15; Philipians 2:15; 1 John 3:1, 2).

The majority of the Jews did not have this faith. When Jesus said that he was the Son of God, they wanted to stone him for blasphemy. Jesus replied that not only was he the Son of God, but that he would bring many sons to God and quoted from the above texts in support of this assertion (John 10:31-40; Psalm 82:1, 6, 7).

“The Word became flesh to make us ‘partakers of the divine nature’ [2 Peter 1:4]: ‘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’

This teaching is even more prevalent in Eastern Orthodox tradition, where it is known by the Greek term theosis, meaning “divinization” or “deification.” However, it is wholly unlike the New Age concept of “I am god”—looking to the self as supreme. Notice the remarkable explanation of the early Catholic theologian Tertullian, writing around A.D. 200:

“It would be impossible that another God could be admitted, when it is permitted to no other being to possess anything of God. Well, then, you say, at that rate we ourselves possess nothing of God. But indeed we do, and will continue to do so. Only it is from Him that we receive it, and not from ourselves. For we will be even gods, if we deserve to be among those of whom He declared, ‘I have said, “You are gods,”’ and ‘God stands in the congregation of the gods.’ But this comes of His own grace, not from any property in us. For it is He alone who can make gods” (Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 3, p. 480, quoted in “Deification of Man,” David Bercot, editor, A Dictionary of Early Christian Beliefs, 1998, p. 200).