1,000s of gods

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Does anyone believeme when I say there are 1000s of gods by participation and one God in essence?

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billcu1 said:
Does anyone believeme when I say there are 1000s of gods by participation and one God in essence?

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Do you mean that we, to whom the Word of God came, are gods? I believe that. It is Scriptural.
 
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Does anyone believeme when I say there are 1000s of gods by participation and one God in essence?

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Maybe you should expand on this. It’s hard to tell from this one sentence what you really mean.
 
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Maybe you should expand on this. It’s hard to tell from this one sentence what you really mean.
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I believe this is what is meant by this. IMO. THere are 1000s of people and one God. There are 1000s of gods that are other races of semi divine beings mainly from “Mythology” if you buy modern man’s ignorace of what mythos is. But I guess one would have to delve deeper into the words of the person I quoted to get his meaning! I think we know who that was.
 
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Yes I think that would be a correct interpretation.
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One might have to look in “Ascent of Mt. Carmel” or “Dark night of the soul” and maybe that would explain exactly what he meant. If not and anyone knows exactly what John meant of this I’m all ears.
 
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That depends on your definition of “gods”. The word has many connotations. There is the obvious St. Athanasius reference, but theosis happens by way of participation in the divine life. Such that what St. Paul says in Galatians 2:19-20 becomes perfectly clear:

I live, but longer I, but Christ lives in me…

So more accurately, the divinized saint could be considered a “god” insofar as he participates in the divine life, and that his life is therefore divine in a synergistic way. As an effect, his nature is perfected, but not made supernatural (so never “God” in essence, as God’s essence is incommunicable).

With that said, I don’t believe it to be wise to play semantics with the word “god”, or else people will easily get the wrong idea and think you are a Mormon or something. “Theosis” and “participation in the Trinitarian life” are more useful terms when the subject arises (certainly, a criteria of conversing about a subject is effective communication).
 
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