What do they mean by...?

[Montie_Claunch]

Mark 10:18"And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? There is none good but one, that is, God?"
But, isn’t Jesus God?

quote from Zakuska

460 The Word became flesh to make us “partakers of the divine nature”:78 "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."79 "For the Son of God became man so that we might become God."80 “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.”

forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=81261

The part that has me confused is the statement between 79 and 80, what is this tring to say to us?

 

[JLove]

see 1 John 3:1-2

 

[Della]

Mark 10:18"And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? There is none good but one, that is, God?"
But, isn’t Jesus God?

Yes, of course Jesus is God. What is always important to keep in mind is the context in which Jesus says anything. In this context he was challenging the person asking him a question about salvation who had addressed him as “good teacher”. He wasn’t denying his divine nature nor calling himself a sinner, but merely changing the direction of the interchange between himself and this man whom he knew was trying to ingratiate himself so that he would get the answer he wanted instead of the answer Jesus wanted to give him.

quote from Zakuska:

460 The Word became flesh to make us “partakers of the divine nature”:78 "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."79 "For the Son of God became man so that we might become God."80 “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.”

forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=81261

The part that has me confused is the statement between 79 and 80, what is this tring to say to us?

As an LDS, Zakuska is reading into this text what he wants it to say to line up with his LDS beliefs and so attempt to make it look like the Church has changed its teachings. But, he is taking it out of context and applying it incorrectly. After all, does he really think the leaders of the Church that stupid?

All that this passage means is that we take on the divine life of Christ through his becoming man thus making us sons of God through our communion with him–divine life that never ends, making us “gods”, but not divine beings in our own right, but only partakers of the divine life in Christ. We will be like him in that we will never die again or sin or be outside the will of God for all eternity.

 

[NotWorthy]

“***By the mingling of this water and wine, may we come to share in His divinity, as he humbled Himself to share in our humanity”

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Those beautiful words are what the priest is (usually silently) praying when he puts the drops of water into the wine chalice(s) during the blessing of the bread and wine. Several years ago, the priest would say it out loud, but they seldom do now. I wish this was a custom that would return. It is both beautiful and instructing at the same time.

NotWorthy