(New Testament |
John 10:34 - 36)
34 Jesus answered them,
Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?
35 If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and
the scripture cannot be broken;
36 Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?
(New Testament |
Philippians 2:5 - 6)
5
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
(New Testament |
2 Peter 1:3 - 9)
3
According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these
ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience;
and to patience godliness;
7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9
But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
(New Testament |
1 John 3:2)
2
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear,
we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
(New Testament | Revelation 3:21)
21 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
First you quote John (10:34-36). Correct interpretation:
"In this passage, Jesus is referring to Psalm 82:6. The Psalm verse in question is a reference to the judges of Israel who, since they exercised the divine prerogative to judge, were called “gods.” In the Psalm, God is condemning the judges of Israel for their wicked judgments and reminding them that they will face him at the ultimate judgment. In the Gospel of John, Jesus is pointing out the hypocrisy of the Jewish leaders in assuming the descriptor “god” but denying it to Jesus."- quoted from catholicanswer.com
You then quoted Phil (2:5-6),correct interpretation: The context of
"let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, Who..." is not applying to verse 6, but is applying to verse 4 which you - convenient to your erroneous beliefs - left out. Verse 4 states:
"not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others."
This is the mind that ought to be in Christians, the mind of humility and putting the needs and interests of the other before those of yourself.
Not that you should have the mind
"to not think it robbery to be equal with God." It should go without saying that the human creature should not conclude that we - the Christians - should have the mind in us
"to not think it robbery to be equal with God". Quoting these verses and twisting them this way means you are saying that we should think that we are equal with God because Jesus is equal with His Father. It is blatant blasphemy.
Next you quote 2nd Peter (1:3-9). I will just copy and paste what you emboldened as if this was your proof text.
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ye might be partakers of the divine nature
-and to patience godliness
How is this proof text that in heaven we will be "gods" able to create reasoning creatures? Notice that it says "partakers of the divine nature" not that "you might become the divine nature". Beyond that, concerning "godliness", even now we Christians work out godliness, even now as we love Christ/follow His commandments we are "
working out our own salvation". This cannot be done without in this life being holy/godly. This is the context. If "godly" was meant to imply here that this is obtained in heaven once we are "gods" then why wouldn't be the very last virtue listed??
The fact that the virtues St.Peter is listing goes on - in a chronological fashion - ending in charity we ought to then conclude - following your logic - that in heaven we become the personification of "charity". "Charity Gods" if you will... Smh.
1st John 3:2
"we shall be like him" Notice it says we shall be
like him? It does not say that we shall be Him, does not say that we will be "gods", and certainly does not say that we will have the power to create reasoning creatures. In fact this "we shall be like him" is similar to Jesus' statement that in heaven we will be "like the angels." The fact that we shall be like him is only referring to the fact that we will have resurrected bodies like that of the Lord. Not that we will be like God.
I hope anything I am saying to you is sinking in... For sure our marriage decisions here on earth do not continue into eternity, with the result of us becoming new, married gods who reign over the earth - like planets where we sire more children.
Finally,
Revelation 3:21)
21 To him that overcomes will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
If you do not see the difference here I don't know what to tell you. These verses are helping my the Traditional Catholic position at this point... The Lord(Jesus) will grant us to sit with Him on His throne, as He sits with His Father on His throne. There is a big difference there, even almost helps foolish people to see that all the glory is to God and God alone.
1st Corinthian (14:27-29)
"For “God has put everything under His feet.” Now when it says that everything has been put under Him, this clearly does not include the One who put everything under Him. 28
And when all things have been subjected to Him, then the Son Himself will be made subject to Him who put all things under Him, so that God may be all in all.
This is to mean that all glory is due to God. The One Who put all things under the feet of His Son, and His Son Who gives all back to His Father. This Loving between the Father and the Son is The Holy Spirit. The Father, the Son, and The Holy Spirit are the One Creator. You and the rest of the human race will never be like Him. You know this in your heart...
The fact that people can read Scripture this way further proves that the Bible just does not interpret itself. And that people twist and contort the Scripture to their destruction as St.Peter forewarned.
2nd Peter(3:15-16) "
15 Consider also that our Lord’s patience brings salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom God gave him. 16 He writes this way in all his letters, speaking in them about such matters. Some parts of his letters are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do also with the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction."
