But if LDS teaching says that we're already gods, and these things refer to the things that make Jesus a god, then don't we already have these things?
If not, then what's the difference?
He that overcometh shall inherit
all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
Inherit all things.... what does that mean to you?
1). All things .... just somethings or specifically what will we not consider all things?
2). Wealth, Property, Worlds, Space, Time, Kingdom etc.
3). Genetics, characteristic and predisposition
4). All of one's belongings.
You need to ask, is this a literal inheritance or just a metaphor or allegory... real or imaginary?
1). God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.”
2). Psalms, “Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?”
3). “to him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.”
Revelation.
What exactly the early church fathers meant when they spoke of becoming God is open to interpretation,
15 but it is clear that references to deification became more contested in the late Roman period and were infrequent by the medieval era. The first known objection by a church father to teaching deification came in the fifth century.
16 By the sixth century, teachings on “becoming God” appear more limited in scope, as in the definition provided by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (ca. A.D. 500): “Deification … is the attaining of likeness to God and union with him
so far as is possible.”
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Why did these beliefs fade from prominence? Changing perspectives on the creation of the world may have contributed to the gradual shift toward more limited views of human potential. The earliest Jewish and Christian commentaries on the Creation assumed that God had organized the world out of preexisting materials, emphasizing the goodness of God in shaping such a life-sustaining order.
18 But the incursion of new philosophical ideas in the second century led to the development of a doctrine that God created the universe
ex nihilo—“out of nothing.” This ultimately became the dominant teaching about the Creation within the Christian world.
19 In order to emphasize God’s power, many theologians reasoned that nothing could have existed for as long as He had. It became important in Christian circles to assert that God had originally been completely alone.
Creation ex nihilo widened the perceived gulf between God and humans. It became less common to teach either that human souls had existed before the world or that they could inherit and develop the attributes of God in their entirety in the future.
20 Gradually, as the depravity of humankind and the immense distance between Creator and creature were increasingly emphasized, the concept of deification faded from Western Christianity,
21 though it remains a central tenet of Eastern Orthodoxy, one of the three major branches of Christianity.
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Just as children can develop the attributes of their parents, each of us has the potential to become like our Heavenly Father.
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