Questions for Deification Deniers

@sonship said

In the Recovery Version the other ways the word Author may be translated are:
Captian, Originator, Inaugurator, Leader, Pioneer.

@sonship said

Something should be said to address this fearful implication of your criticism.

It is too bad some people don't read the book of Hebrews.

Two truths can run concurrently.
Christ can have a more excellent name and yet have partners.

"For we have become patners of Christ, if indeed we hold fast the beginning of the assurance firm to the end - " (Heb. 3:14)

He can have "partners" yet be exalted high over and above them.

"You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness, therefore God, Your God, has anointed You with the oil of exultant joy above Your partners." (Heb 1:9)

Thoough He has partners and brothers He still is their HIgh Priest and Captain exultant above them and worthy of more honor.

Dweification of the believers does not dimenish the honorability of the Leader, the Firstborn Son of God. Ghost is grasping at straws to be the Christianity defending atheist.

@sonship said
It is too bad some people don't read the book of Hebrews.

Christ is said to be worthy of more honor then the house.
The house is man made the dwelling place of God.
The Builer of the house is God.
To be clear the Bulder of the house of God is God incarnate as a man in Hebrews.

But He is the cornerstone of this house of God.
He is the topstone of this house of God.
He is the foundation stone of this house of God.

He is the one producing the building material for this house of God.
And He is the Builder of the dwelling place of God in spirit.

Yet He has MORE HONOR than the house.

"Therefore, holy brothers [brothers of the holy Son of God]
partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus.

Who was faithful to Him who constitited Him, as also Moses was in all His house.

For He has been counted worthy of more glory than Msses, by as much as He who built the house has more honor than the house. For every house is built by someone, but He who built all things is God." (Heb. 3:1-4)

1.) Christ is greater than Moses.
2.) Moses build a house but Christ builds the ultimate house of God.
3.) Christ as the Apostle and High Priest is also God the Builder.
4.) He is part of this house of a dwelling place of God in man. yet He is counted with more honor than the house.

In His deification and our following deification and builkding up with Him He still has more honor.

@sonship said
Ghost is grasping at straws to be the Christianity defending atheist.

@sonship said
Christ is said to be worthy of more honor then the house.
The house is man made the dwelling place of God.
The Builer of the house is God.
To be clear the Bulder of the house of God is God incarnate as a man in Hebrews.

But He is the cornerstone of this house of God.
He is the topstone of this house of God.
He is the foundation stone of this house of God.

...[text shortened]... In His deification and our following deification and builkding up with Him He still has more honor.

@Ghost-of-a-Duke

If you are going to play defender of evangelical Christianity, than at least go read through the book of Hebrews.
Going only on your past vague memories of long discarded Sunday School lessons is inadaquate. Learn what is written there in the NT why don't you?

@sonship said
@Ghost-of-a-Duke

If you are going to play defender of evangelical Christianity, than at least go read through the book of Hebrews.
Going only on your past vague memories of long discarded Sunday School lessons is inadaquate. Learn what is written there in the NT why don't you?

@kingdavid403 said
Are you trying to say here that some people should be treated like a god? I'm sorry, but I cannot seem to follow this thread from the beginning. Maybe it's my missing brain cells. Please explain your understanding of "deification"?
On a side note, Ghost-of-a-Duke knows the Bible well; probably as well as you or I.

@rajk999 said
Claiming to be like God or wanting to be God is the occupation of the mind of Satan.

@sonship said

Going only on your past vague memories of long discarded Sunday School lessons is inadaquate. Learn what is written there in the NT why don't you?

@kingdavid403 said
Agreed. It's also "the occupation of the mind of" many Christians that think they are above everyone else. From what I have experienced over and over, is seeing people who come to believe that they are some great Prophet or something. That they are above all other Christians; and others, of course.

Proverbs 16:18 [King James Version]
18 Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

@kingdavid403 said
Agreed. It's also "the occupation of the mind of" many Christians that think they are above everyone else. From what I have experienced over and over, is seeing people who come to believe that they are some great Prophet or something. That they are above all other Christians; and others, of course. Almost every Christian church or denomination thinks they are above a ...[text shortened]... 16:18 [King James Version]
18 Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Sonship is trying to fashion himself a Tower of Babel.