Thursday, January 5, 2023

LeGrand Richards on Theosis and how We Will Always be Subservient to God the Father

In a letter dated July 14, 1966, addressed to Morris L. Reynolds, LeGrand Richards wrote the following:

 



 

Your third question: "How can we become like a God who is ever increasing and progressing?" There is a statement often repeated in the church, and while it is not in one of the Standard Church works, it is accepted as Church doctrine, and this is: "As man is, God once was; as God is, man may become." now that simply means, if we interpret it correctly, that we can become a god, even a son of god, as the scriptures indicate; but it does not mean that we will ever be equal with God in the sense that we can gain the knowledge that He will have; as we progress in knowledge, He also will progress, and since there will never come a time we will cease to learn, we will never really catch up to Him but that does not change the fact that As God is, we can become in the sense that we can become gods as He is God, but He will always be our superior.