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Originally Posted by CardiacCoug
Here was Oaks quoting CS Lewis:
So now we have an apostle saying it is wrong for people to want to "be like gods"??
So it appears that "As man is, God once was. As God is, man may become" has now been officially disavowed by the Church. It has gone the way of Adam-God theory and Blood Atonement.
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No, what he is clearly saying the problem is for man to think they can be like Gods without actually needing God.
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What Satan put into the heads of our remote ancestors was the idea that they could ‘be like gods’—could set up on their own as if they had created themselves—be their own masters—invent some sort of happiness for themselves outside God, apart from God.
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It doesn't take a careful reading of the very passage you cited to understand what he means.