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THEOLOGY OF PAUL<br />

M.M.NINAN<br />

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Ps. 61:8 I myself have said, 'You are gods, and all of you are sons of the Most High."<br />

John 17: 21-22 That they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you. That they also<br />

may be in us that they may be one; even as we are one.<br />

2 Peter 1:3 YOU MAY BECOME PARTAKERS of the DIVINE NATURE [and] escape from the corruption<br />

that is in the world because of passion.<br />

I John 3:2 My dear people, we are already the children of God but what we are to be in the future has not yet<br />

been revealed; all we know is, that when it is revealed we shall be like him because we shall see him as he really<br />

is.<br />

C.S. Lewis<br />

“It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most<br />

uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly<br />

tempted to worship. . . “<br />

C.S. Lewis The Weight of Glory<br />

“(God) said that we were "gods" and He is going to make good His words. If we let Him-for we can prevent Him if<br />

we choose—He will make the feeblest and filthiest of us into a god or goddess, dazzling, radiant, immortal<br />

creature, pulsating all through with such energy and joy and wisdom and love as we cannot now imagine, a bright<br />

stainless mirror which reflects back to God perfectly (though, of course, on a smaller scale) His own boundless<br />

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