The
Bible talks about believers being partakers of God’s divine nature.
What does that entail?
As
believers, we have eternal life and our soul is immortal. Our bodies
will become immortal at the time of the resurrection. However, being
immortal is not the same as being deity. For example, angels are immortal
but they are not God. We shall partake of His divine nature in so far
as being immortal and glorified, but we shall never have the attributes
of deity such as omnipresence, omnipotence, and omniscience among others.
On the contrary, those wanting to become like God or who claim to be
God are reflecting the mind of Satan (Isaiah 12:12-14; II Thessalonians
2:3-8) in contrast to Jesus who always was God and was willing to take
on the role of a servant (Philippians 2:5-9).
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