The Son of God became man so that we might become God.


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The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.
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Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.
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Jesus might have said, "I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.".
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When one takes into account also His reiterated assertions about His Divinity - such as asking us to...
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Christ was made man that we might be made God.
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One night a father overheard his son pray: Dear God, Make me the kind of man my Daddy is. Later that...
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If the moderns really want a simple religion of love, they must look for it in the Athanasian Creed....
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The false argument has been used that only a man can represent a male Jesus. But this portrays an in...
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Mindset of the man too busy: I am too busy BEING God to become LIKE God.
MARK BUCHANAN
God cannot be referred to as 'good,' 'better,' or 'best' because He is above all things. If a man sa...
ANDREW DAVIDSON
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the son of God.
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God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
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God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
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God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
JAMES M. BARRIE
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
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God never gave man a thing to do concerning which it were irreverent to ponder how the Son of God w...
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That thou seest, man, become too thou must; God, if thou seest God, dust, if thou seest dust.
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That thou seest, man, become too thou must; God, if thou seest God, dust, if thou seest dust.
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All men ought to think of Christ because of the office Christ fills between God and man. He is the e...
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God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December.
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A choice from the gods is as useless as the gods themselves!
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“God became man; and the love, woman. (Dieu s'est fait homme; - Et l'amour, femme.)”
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Jesus recognized that God within him and became Christ - so did Siddhartha Gautama and became Buddha...
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Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God.
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Thank God that he brings all the troops and my son home safely. Thank God,
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for God so loved the World that he gave his only begotten Son' John 3:16
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God made woman beautiful and foolish; beautiful, that man might love her; and foolish, that she migh...
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God made woman beautiful and foolish; beautiful, that man might love her; and foolish, that she migh...
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Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
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May we incorporate into our own lives the divine principles which he [Joseph Smith] so beautifully t...
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‎God remains silent so that men and women may speak, protest, and struggle. God remains silent so ...
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Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.
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Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.
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The most wonderful thing of all about the cross is that it reveals the love of God to us. It is not ...
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But that's not how God views the cross, Jake. His wrath wasn't an expression of the punishment sin d...
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We can become so insensitive to the Spirit's prodding that we become too idle, too self absorbed and...
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I believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
God created dreams so that one might not gets bored while sleeping.
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He blesses us so we can be different.
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Let God Himself be the main attraction at church again, and let us be tireless in our insistence tha...
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We are a blessed people and, with God s guidance, our smiles might even become laughter in the not t...
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I found you can believe the man in history that is Jesus who walked the earth. It's a whole diff...
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Everyone is a son or daughter of god.
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Not so on Man; him through their malice fall'n,
Father of Mercy and Grace, thou didst not doom<...
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Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.
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There is no god, so how can I consider myself a god? God is the greatest lie invented by man.
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Today I am the happiest man in the world, my son was born and thanks to God for this gift.
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God doesn't call the equipped, son. God equips the called. And you have been called.
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God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, man kills God, man brings back dinosaur...
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The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man.
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I asked God for all things , that I might enjoy life. God gave life, that I might enjoy all things.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
When Jesus died on the cross the mercy of God did not become any greater. It could not become any gr...
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God gave us memories that we might have roses in December.
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Ask not God the trial of man and ask not man the greatness of God.
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God is absence. God is the solitude of man.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Who is the Saviour? The Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
I still got a son and I thank God for that.
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Now the whole offer which Christianity makes is this: that we can, if we let God have His way, come ...
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God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
God must love the common man, he made so many of them
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Dad!" Jesus yelled.
"Yes, son," God said.
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