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Originally Posted by Freedom

When I think of the various adjectives that would describe God's nature, none of those same adjectives I see as being applicable to human beings. For example, John 4:24 says "God is spirit..." God's nature is spirit. WIth that in mind, if Lee said that that we can become like God in nature, then how come my nature hasn't changed from a human to a spirit? I can't walk through walls or anything like that. The reason I attach that kind of expectation to the LC notion of deification is because they attribute the phrase "god-man" to people in a present sense.

What I find insightful is Paul and Barnabas' reaction in Acts 14 after the Lycaonians had tried to deify them:
But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard this, they tore their clothes and ran in among the multitude, crying out and saying, “Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men with the same nature as you, and preach to you that you should turn from these useless things to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all things that are in them...

I highlighted what I think is the key, same nature as you. Paul and Barnabas were quick to react against anyone claiming they had any nature other than human. Trying to make a claim otherwise introduces all kinds of problems and certainly has no Biblical basis. That is not even to mention the inevitable pride that goes along with LCers making claims of being god-men.

Peter says that we are "partakers of the divine nature." Lee changed this to "become God in nature."

With this sleight of hand, and the Blended lackeys to enforce it, the recovery was taken off the reservation.