The Truth About Mormonism - Pastor Greg Mah

Sunday, Aug. 23, 2015
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Divinization was developed within the context of incarnational theology. The teaching about deification of a Christian can be found as early as in the works of Irenaeus, a Greek Father who was a head of the church of Lyons (c. 130-202) a.d. Athanasius of Alexandria was an author of the phrase about Jesus Christ which has become popular in Christmas homilies: "He was made human so that he might make us gods" (De incarnatione 54,3, cf. Contra Arianos 1.39). Divinization in the context of the Eucharist was taught by Gregory of Nyssa and Cyril of Alexandria. The term never meant for them breaching the absolute ontological distinction between God and his creation.
There are way more problems with Mormonism than the teaching of becoming gods.

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These are not core beliefs and Joseph Smith didn't just invent this stuff, he is taking it from early Christian church fathers and lecture notes from John Smith, professor at Dartmouth College.