Catholics: Please clairify this teaching

[Khristeeanos]

Reference:

Complete and Updated Catechism of the Catholic Church (Image/Doubleday) 2nd edition

with modifications from the editio typica

On page 128-129 it says:

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

Please clarify what it means when it says man came become God.

[Datan]

It's not literal. I think it means that by accepting Jesus we become intune with God; in other words: we become one with God's love and such.

I could be wrong, however.

[Khristeeanos]

I am not an anti-Catholic. I just came across the text and wanted to know what it means.

[Guest Mark Alexander]

The "one" in one, holy, catholic, apostolic, I think it has to do with the unity of faith, the new testamnet has it 31 times, "thee faith" it's not me & Jesus, it the fact that we must all believe the same things, the "deposit of faith" or a Romans has it, "obedience or faith"!

One: Unity, Holy: Our founder was holy and the means of santification, Catholic: universal, the greek word for universal comes bask in english as catholic, Apostolic: from the Apostles and commected to them, Apostolic succesion.

Mark

[damo1]

Reference:

Complete and Updated Catechism of the Catholic Church (Image/Doubleday) 2nd edition

with modifications from the editio typica

On page 128-129 it says:

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

Please clarify what it means when it says man came become God.

damo1

high this is damo since i use to be appart of the cathlic orthodox church in yougoslavia i think i can shed some light but i was not a full committed cathlic like my grandmother and my grandfather wear i have heard a cathlic priest preach on this in my village as things i heard when i was 5 yrs old are starting to come back to me we came to australia in 1971 so i was stil very young and my grandmother and grandfather joined up with cathlic church in mascot

john 1

1 in the begining was the word and the word was with god and the word was god

2 he was with god in the beginning

what is missing from what you stated is this

3 through him all things were made with out him nothing was made that has been made

4 in him was life and that life was the light of man

5 the light shines in the darkness but the darkness has not understood it

9 the true light that gives light to every man was coming into the world

10 he was in the world and through the world was made through him the world did not recognize him

11 he came to that which was his own but his own did not receive him

12 yet to all who received him to those who belived in his name he gave the right to become children of god

that is one twister and the cathlic preists like throwing those twisters un les you are able to read the bible which they read from the holy bible or the old kings james no wonder you are trying to figure out what this means as to the cathlics you need to do good works as i know salvation can only be gained by faith and faith alone not good works this is what my grand mother and grand father were told that they had to become like god to see the world around them and then to get to god they had to work hard and do good for the vilage they wear living in and be kind and help ful and give what they have to the church and you can only be forgiven your sins threw the priests you can not go to god by your self and ask god your self to forgive you you need to do this with the parish priest as he is the only one that has the right to enter into the holy of holys and comunicat with god

this is what got me mad when i was young even though i loved my grand father and grand mother i did not like what i saw with my own eyes and what the priests wear doing to those in their parishes and i could not comit and become an orthadox cathlic as they wanted me to be an altar boy just like some of the other boys and i could not see my self wearing what altar boys wear it looked to sissy for me in the village i was living in yougoslavia

most cathlic preists think they are god because they feel they are the only ones that can comunicate to god this is part of their doctrine i new one preist in sydney who i use to go and see with my mate he was gay he openly told us this and he bought my mate what ever he wanted that is including alcahol or spirits

no one can be made to be a god my father in heaven is the only true god we are created in the image of him

and this is what the cathlic preists would not tel the parishes they wear pastoring as the truth was right in front of them but they avoided the truth of gods word and only said what they felt was needed to be said the other verses i gave you this is what some could not understand

jesus came to reconcile man back to god this is what they could not understand or new this yet did not want to belive it i am not bashing cathlics hear as i pray with spirit filled cathlics my self and i also pray with sevral spirit filled nuns who have become like spiritual mothers to me even though i am with the christian out reach center i am very apostolic i have gotten to know these spirit filled nuns and we get on very well as even the cathlics i know that are pulling away from their parishes they are starting to see that the doctrine that has been passed on to them from the head office in italy is wrong and are denouncing every thing that has ever been taught to them

so i am not just talking from my head

al i can say that is one twister my friend can i ask wear you got this and with your permisson can i show this to the spirit filled cathlic nuns i know i wil not give anything that you left in your post until i hear from you as i am sure the cathlic spirit filled nuns i know wil tell you what i have told you and give you the same verses i gave you

i could be wrong though yet this is how i see what you are trying to work out

from your brother in the lord damo

[wvpeach]

John 10:34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law , I said ye are Gods? If he called them gods unto whom the word of God came and the scripture cannot be broken.

You do know the word God is generic and is not the name of the creator ? The creator is called by many names in the bible . God is the English word for creator.

The word God and Lord mean a person in power and authority . Its a myth that God is the name of our creator.

Just a guess but I would say what you have posted shows that the Catholics realize God means a person who is honored or has authority and deserves respect. That they know God is not the name or title of the creator of all of us.

Just a guess though as I am not catholic.

[georgesbluegirl]

It actually goes back to the teaching of the Incarnation - basically, the idea is that the miracle didn't end with the assumption of Jesus. Once Jesus - God in the flesh, literally - was no longer on earth, those who followed him became the eyes, ears, hands, etc. of God. So God became man -> Incarnation -> (Christian) man becomes the embodiment of God (in a way beyond "created in the image" - perhaps fulfilling that original "design?").