Becoming

I hope this helps someone who wants to know more about who they really are…

I have been wanting and meaning to put this into a post for a really long time. This means more to me than most topics. I think about it often; especially having children in the stages they are in. I write this to get people thinking who have asked me so many questions about my faith the last little bit. I have never given the response needed to make this point and bring to light what I believe to be truth.

Before I get started, this is the one foundational and core truths that makes more sense than any doctrine taught in my church, however and for whatever reason, isn’t understood or thought about by most people in the world.

I am going to answer this question…

“Can we as as humans become like God?”

And I am going to answer this question with only questions…

All of the scripture references will be from The Holy Bible, not the Book of Mormon (At least this time 🙂

Can we become like God? (Yes, in the literal sense of the meaning) Can you, yes you reading this right now, become like God in the next life? Male and Female both…

Here we go…

If there is a God, does it threaten Him if we could become like Him?

Does it make Him happy when we learn and grow? Is there going to come a time when we have learned enough, and after that, He stops our progress and expansion because we are gaining too much?

Is God a dictator? Or is He a universal leader? Meaning, does a dictator only want power for themselves and get threatened by the thought of someone else having any amount of power and authority? If the answer is yes, is that the universe you want to dwell in forever?

Is God a true universal leader? Does a true leader become happy when they see someone else succeed, learn, and grow? Does a true leader get jealous when another advances? Or does a true leader become an even greater leader when He or She creates other leaders?

How large is space? Is there not room for more God’s? Does not the scriptures say in Corinthians “gods many, and lords many” in the universe? Just like on earth a child has only ONE parent and answers to ONE parent, does that mean there are no other parents across the street raising their children? Could it be there are “Mom’s many and Dad’s many”, but there is only one Mom and Dad to us? Many many God’s in space?

Does a perfect parent want to limit their children? Or does a parent not only what they have, but even more? What type of parent doesn’t want to give their child everything they have, and more?

What does the Bible scripture mean when Jesus commands us to be ye therefore perfect? (Matt 5:48) And what was the measuring sick? Wasn’t it be ye therefore perfect, like your Father in heaven is perfect? What does that mean? Do we believe Jesus when He says we can be perfect one day like the Father is Perfect? Or do we not? Doesn’t the word perfect in Greek not mean, fully developed and completed? Will we never be completed in Him?

Why did Christ come to earth to be a perfect example? For what? When he said “Come follow me..” Did he mean only half way? Or did he mean ALL the way?

What did Jesus mean when he said in Romans 8:17 “And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.” Did christ say and if “plants”? If “animals”? Or did He say “Children”?

Speaking of Children… Who are you? Are you a plant? A tree? An animal? Or are you a child of God? Does not a plant grow into the same mature larger plant once the seed has sprouted and it’s properly nourished? What about a tree? What about an animal? What do they turn into once they grow? What will you turn into if properly nourished?

In the book of Revelation, when God says, “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.” Rev 3:21) What throne is he talking about? Is this not the Bible we are reading from?

What’s the point of the next life, if all we are going to be is angels? To do what? Sing for eternity?

If God gave us the ability to create a child on this earth, to protect, care for, teach, help, and grow, is God going to take away that ability in the next life to have children? Why? Is earth not patterned after heaven? If having children is one of the greatest blessings God can give to us on earth, wouldn’t that gift only be multiplied X infinity?

When the Jews tried to trick Jesus, asking him if He was like the Father, did not Jesus teach them the principle of us, becoming like Him, like God? Why did the Jews want to kill Him? Wasn’t it blasphemy? What was the blasphemy? That Jesus that not only He is God, but we are God’s in embryo?

Was it not that Jesus told them about their divine potential?

And Jesus said….

“30 I and my Father are one.

31 Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.

32 Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?

33 The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself a God.

34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? (In the Old Testament it says “Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High” Ps. 82:6.

35 If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;

36 Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?

37 If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.

38 But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the bFather is in me, and I in him.” John 10

Are you getting angry with the words I have just typed, or does this bring you peace thinking it could possibly be true? If it makes you angry, where is that coming from? If it makes you peaceful, where is that coming from?

If you were to be holding a lit candle and I were to be holding an unlit candle, and you were to reach over and light my candle, does it diminish your light on your candle? Or does it only add to it? Is that not the same principle of God?

Is God capable of anything and everything? Have you ever said, “With God ALL things are possible!” Do you believe God can do ALL things like the Bible tells us? Or just some things? Because if you believe He can do ALL things, and He is ALL powerful, all omnipotent, omniscient, etc, then are you going to say He is not powerful enough to make us into God’s, like Himself? Are you now limiting God? Can he do ALL things, except glorify His children?

And last, What did Jesus mean when he said:

21 That they (meaning us) all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:
23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.” John 17

Could this possibly be true? Do you not feel a spark of divinity in you?

Love,

Eric Moutsos
Your Brother in Christ

More Bible scriptures for reference…….

“man is become as one of us, Gen. 3:22

be holy: for I … am holy, Lev. 19:2

madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands, Ps. 8:6.

Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High, Ps. 82:6.

Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father, Matt. 5:48

Jesus: Is it not written in your law … Ye are gods, John 10:34

we are the offspring of God, Acts 17:29.

heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ, Rom. 8:17.

changed into the same image from glory to glory, 2 Cor. 3:18.

if a son, then an heir of God through Christ, Gal. 4:7.

Till we all come … unto a perfect man, Eph. 4:13.

be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live, Heb. 12:9.

when he shall appear, we shall be like him, 1 Jn. 3:2.

him that overcometh will … sit with me in my throne, Rev. 3:21.