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Originally Posted by Malachi7
Psalm 82 speaks of human judges. Not deified men. The judges died like men, after all.
Does "becoming perfect" mean achieving the ability to have children after we die and that those children will go on to become Gods?
I've never heard that from any Christian teacher.
As I read Matt 5 I see that the text is about love, not about becoming eligible to become a God.
Do you also believe in the LDS idea that you'll have children after you die and that they'll become Gods too?
I also read that Mormons believe that God is a man of flesh and bone and that he became "exalted" and that Mormons think they're following that same path.
I hope you'll forgive me for saying that Christians won't accept this line of thinking as representative of Christian theology. (But what am I thinking? You're probably plenty aware of that.)
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Many instances can be found in the Old Testament which apply the epithet "gods" to men. In the Old Testament, the most prominent reference for the Christian doctrine of deification ia Psalm 82:6 (LXX 81:6). The verses seem to apply to judges who represented God despite their mortality (cf. vss. 1 and 7), but the the phrase, 'Εγω ειπα, θεοι εστε by Jesus in John 10:34–36 clearly calls for a much broader interpretation. The early Church always understood Psalm 81:6 as asserting that men were originally created as gods and meant to occupy that rank, until the Fall brought on sin and mortality. Thus Christ's mission was to help fulfill their true destiny. See Benz, Ernst. "Der Ubermensch-Begriff in der Theologie der alten Kirche." TU 77 (1961): p147, Norman, Keith E. "Deification: The Content of Anthansian Soteriology p6.