Hippolytus on Theosis

Hippolytus

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You will be a companion of God, and a co-heir with Christ . . . For you have become divine . . . God has promised to bestow these upon you, for you have been deified and begotten unto immortality.

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The Refutation of All Heresies, The Ante-Nicene Fathers, pages Book 10, Chapter 30, Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson, eds., Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1994

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Athanasius

Just as the Lord, putting on the body, became a man, so also we men are both deified through his flesh, and henceforth inherit everlasting life.

Brigham Young

The Lord created you and me for the purpose of becoming Gods like himself.

Irenaeus

Our Lord Jesus Christ . . . became what we are, so that He might bring us to be even what He Himself is.

More from Hippolytus

For if He had willed to make thee a god, He could have done so. Thou hast the example of the Logos. But if thou art desirous of also becoming a god, obey Him that has created thee, and resist not now, in order that, being found faithful in that which is small, you may be enabled to have entrusted to you also that which is great.