The Heresy of Deifying the  Human!!

How many are the heresies that some started

spreading…

And maybe the most dangerous of which is the

heresy of deifying the human…

And pretending that the human can be in God’s

nature and in His divinity… I know that this talking is

hard and is unacceptable and cannot be believed by

any believer but that is what happened….

And deifying the human is against God’s saying in

the tem commandments since the past “You shall

have no other gods before Me” (Ex 20, Dt 5), and it is

against the Creed that all the world churches believe

in and it starts with “We believe in one God…”. And it

is against what the Lord said in Prophet Isaiah’s book

“I am the LORD, and there is no other; There is no

God besides Me.” (Is 45:5). And His saying “Before

Me there was no God formed, Nor shall there be after

Me” (Is 43:10). And he who believes in deifying the

human falls in the same sin in which Satan fell who

said “I will be like the Most High” (Is 14:14) so he

ended up descending to the Hades and falling of

Heaven (Is 14:15, 12).

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And the danger of this heresy is that

deifying the human means that he has divine

characteristics, regardless of how this heresy’s

owners may try to deny this.

God is a Creator. So is it by deifying the human

he become a creator like God?! He starts having the

ability to create from void!!

And God is present everywhere, in Heaven and on

Earth and in between Heaven and Earth. So by

deifying the human does he become like God in this?!

And God know what’s in the hearts, reads

thoughts and knows intentions. And He also knows

the future. So by deifying the human does he become

fully knowledgeable like God? And does he become

fully capable and mighty?!

And God is eternal, meaning He has no beginning.

So how could they say that human can be deified

while he is a creature with a beginning?! Also God is

alive! And does not die, so with which reasoning do

they believe in deifying the human while he one day

will die?! Can the dead be called a God?!

And same applies in all God’s characteristics

which cannot be applies in deifying the human

heresy. And worst of all, one of those who called with

this heresy that “God has not become another

compared to the human”!! So has God became the

human and the human became God and not

another?!

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And the strange thing is that those who call with

deifying the human are trying to relate this heresy to

the sayings of the first fathers, the saints!!

And there is no way that one of the fathers called

with such deifying…

And if a Christian writer, regardless of who he is,

claimed such a claim. So it is either he did not

understand what that father saint who said the saying

that he refers such talk to, he made a mistake in

translating from Greek which he claims to know or it

is just a trial from his side to hide behind he saying of

the fathers by referring to them what they did not say

or did not mean. Or he is doing wrong towards the

fathers by saying that they believe in this. Or he is

forgetting the teachings of the Holy Bible that says

that God is one and no other one…

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In some of the western countries there are

many heresies that they want to transmit to us

through those who are affected by this strange

western thinking…

Either through those who went in exchange

programs to the west, and were not deep in

understanding their dogma. Or through those who

read some of the books that were issued in western

languages and carry thoughts that are opposing to

our dogma and were affected by what they read… Or

those who admire the strange thoughts and think that

by publishing these thoughts show that they know

what others do not.

And I remember that fifty years ago one of our

sons went in an exchange program group outside and

got captive by the atheist thinking so he wrote a book

titled “The human is the one who created God on his

likeness”!!

And it is known that, out of the freedom of

thinking, the university professor talks in the session

and says what he likes!!

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For those who call with deifying the human,

when they were cornered with the content of the

heresy and its seriousness, they started presenting

certain concepts to explain their heresy:

So they said that rising from the dead

indicate deifying the human. And thus, eternal

life indicates his deifying!!

And that is considering that eternal life is a

characteristic of God (the Eternal)… And this analogy

is wrong because eternal life is of the nature of God.

But for the human, God is the one to grant him

eternal life as we say in our prayers…

So is the person who died, got buried, who body

dissolved and was eaten by worms and turned to

dust, then was raised by God who gave him life, can

he become a God?! While he was weak before death

and stayed for generations in his death until God

raised him?!

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They say also that gaining triumph over

Satan is an evidence of deifying the human.

Taking into consideration that no human gains

triumph over Satan using his own power, but it is

God who gave us the authority to tread on serpents

and scorpions, and upon all the power of the enemy

(Lk 10:19) and without the divine help, how easy is

it for the human to be fooled with Satan’s tricks.

And if saints have triumphed before over Satan,

were they all gods or have they became gods

through gaining this triumph?!

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They also say that we share the divine

nature through the Eucharist Sacrament.

Through which we eat divinity and drink divinity!!

And when we opposed them in this they accused us

in our faith! And we had to explain this point to them

in our book (New Heresies from p. 168 to p. 174).

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And they said that God wanted us deified

ever since the beginning!!

If God wanted to deify us as they say, He would

not have created us of dust and He would have

protected us from falling in sin, and we would have

not been created with a nature that can die… Also

deifying a creature goes against its being created…

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And they started explaining some of the

bible verses and some of the church prayers in

a deviated way.

􀃅 An example of that is “You blessed my nature in

You”. While blessing the nature is one thing and

deifying the nature is another. God blessed

Adam and Eve, blessed Noah and his sons, and

he did not deify them through this blessing.

􀃅 And the statement of “And the glory which You

gave Me I have given them” does not mean the

glory of Divinity at all for God does not give the

glory of Divinity to anyone as mentioned in (Is

42:8).