If we are being transformed into the same image of Christ from glory to glory.. are we then becoming God?

Question

And we all with unveiled face. beholding and reflecting as a mirror the glory of God are being changed into the SAME IMAGE from Glory to Glory even as from the Lord Who is the SPirit. 2 Cor 3-18

I am in no way asking if we are to be worshipped as God... but as Christ's Bride and Counterpart for eternity should we not match Him in life and Nature? In the same way adam did not have a monkey for a wife.. rather he had a woman made out of His own side as bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh to be his match.. should not Christ's bride be the same.. Like Adam Christ's side was pierce and out flowed blood and water.. Blood for the redemption of His Bride and Water for the Imparting of His Life to her to transform her inwardly to match Him.
So is there such a thing as becoming God in life and nature but NOT in the GOdhead.

We are made partakers of the Divine Nature of God. ( 2 Peter 1-14)
We are Born of God as children of God the Father.. " behold what manner of Love the Father has given unto us that we should be called the sons of God, and we are.
The key matter in this question is NOT worship or the ability to create as the Creator.. BUT OF LIFE AND NATURE.
Where CHrist is working who is the Image of the Invisible God is conforming us into His IMage.

Answer 1

Very nice observations. I was reading in the Bible something about us growing more and more Christlike, so that when we stand with Jesus at His return, He will be as the firstborn among many brethren.
May God bless you!

Answer 2

God is a family. Read Gen. 1:26 where God said let us make man in our image. We are in the image of God in that we are able to think, plan, & create. Plus our bodies our shaped like Gods. The difference is we are flesh & blood & God is Spirit. The physical creation of God is complete but the spiritual creation is going on now! Adam was offered the tree of life which is a symbol of the holy spirit. Had he taken of it , it would have led to eternal life! Gen. 3:22
So a second Adam came which is Jesus Christ who did no sin & died for our sins that we might have eternal life. Read 1st Cor. 15:45-47 also read verse 22. This is a mystery to most but God is creating a spiritual family. Read Eph. 3: 9, 15. If we are the children of God then God would be our Father & Jesus Christ our High Priest & Elder Brother. For this to happen we must be born again & being born again is much more than some feeling someone gets at an alter somewhere. It's talking about a real birth. It's when we are no longer flesh & blood but born as Spirit Beings! Read John 3: 3-8. Then read 1st Cor. 15:50 & verse 53 where it says this mortal must put on immortality. If you will read all this chapter you will see it is talking about the resurrection of the dead who at that time will be born again, no longer flesh but spirit then death will be swallowed up in victory because a spirit being can't die!
So yes we will become just as God & His son Jesus are now. The very children of God. Lesser in rank but able to create.
God is creating His Spiritual Family!

Answer 3

Before the fall God created mankind, male and female, in His own image. The Hebrew word used in Genesis 1 is the word that means "idol". In other words we were like tiny representations of God here on earth before sin entered this world. It didn't mean that we had God like powers or that we had God like wisdom or knowldege. It just meant that God had created us to rule over his creation as pure beings who were "like" God but who were "not" God.

Now that Jesus has come and the Holy Spirit has followed Him those of us who believe and who have received the Holy Spirit are free from the domination of sin over our lives (Rom 6:14) and are being cleaned up and set apart (sanctified) as God's ambassadors for Christ here on earth and as his eternal children in the new earth to come.

We are in the process of being conformed to the image or likeness of the Lord Jesus in character. That process will not be completed until we are freed from these earthly bodies and from this fallen world because until then we still have to battle with temptation to sin and we fall short of God's glory and Christ's perfection.

At the resurrection we will have been restored to the state of being in God's image. However, I can't help but think that we will be somehow more than mankind was at the beginning of creation. God didn't allow the fall to happen for no reason. It must have been a necessary part of the process He is using to to make us the way that He intends us to be. I don't know why He didn't just create us that way to begin with, but then again even though I'm being transformed into the "image" of God, I'm not being transformed into a "god".

Answer 4

Avoid a negative approach to life. Why gaze down the sewers when there is loveliness all around us? Life has a bright side and a dark side, for the world of relativity is composed...of light and shadow. If you permit your thoughts to dwell on evil, you yourself will become ugly. Look only for the good in everything..., that you absorb the quality of beauty ~ Paramahansa Yogananda Or as the apostle paul wrote:whatever things are true... just... pure... lovely... of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy - meditate on these things (phil 4.8).

Answer 5

Not becoming God as this is not possible but becoming like God in His Nature. So as He is love we love, He is merciful, we show mercy. We will always be a creature but in Christ we will be lifted up into the life of God and be like Jesus the true Son of God.

Answer 6

As we take communion, which is the body and blood of Christ, live in grace by the holy sacraments, and grow closer to God in our minds and hearts, He transforms us into a purified body, soul (mind) and spirit. He changes us into a glorified being capable of being in His presence.

We become Saints not God. Many have become Saints before us. They achieved purified bodies some of whom have been exhumed years after burial showing no signs of decay such as St. Vincent de Paul. They achieved pure thinking allowing them to explain the Christian faith in ways unknown to man, such as St. Augustine. They achieved spiritual miracles in healing and other ways such as St. Peter.

While we will always be creatures (meaning created) he will transform us into perfect humans capable of Heaven. We will be in His presence for eternity. While we will be perfect, only God is uncreated. He is the I AM.

Hope this helps.

Yours in Christ Jesus, Grace

Answer 7

John 1:12 -13 says "Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God."

I believe this will help answer your question.

Answer 8

GOD is a Flaming Fire, Love, Light, Life

GOD (The Father) made HIM a Human Body to live in.
The SON (Jesus) took on one too!

GOD, JESUS, HOLY SPIRIT is the CREATOR.


We are Human Beings. Not CREATORS.

The CREATOR is far far Above Human Beings.


Now think about this: If you could Create Life Forms that were below you, like Human Beings, wouldn't you want to become one soas you could Pow-Around with'em?
Ditto...........

Answer 9

PHILIPPIANS 2:5-6... Let this mind be in you,which was also in Christ Jesus: Who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God.

Answer 10

The belief that one can become God is the last snare of illusion that holds a person in the prison that is the material universe.

No jigsaw peice can become the whole picture.
One can remove one's ignorance in order to attain spiritual perfection in the image of God. But this does not mean one is becoming God. Qualitativly one attains spiritual parity, but quantitativly one does not attain parity to God. God is infinate and undefinable. We are just undefinable parts and parcels of God.