That's what the Roman Catholic Church offers in the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
On page 184 of the 1994 edition Augustine is quoted. (Tractates on the Gospel of John. 21, 8. Migne, Patrologia Latina, 35, 1568.)
Let us rejoice then and give thanks that we have become not only Christians, but Christ himself. Do you understand and grasp, brethren, God's grace towards us? Marvel and rejoice: we have become Christ. ... The fullness of Christ then is the head and the members. But what does 'head and members' mean? Christ and the Church.And then Thomas Aquinas is quoted. (Summa Theologiae, III, 48, 2.) In the catechism the passage is quoted as follows:
Head and members form as it were one and the same mystical person.At newadvent.org this passage is cited as follows:
The head and members are as one mystic person...These persons were specifically talking about the Roman Catholic Church but the idea can easily be applied to other churches if we so wish to do so.
While so many have been mesmerized by HWA and his imitators little did they know how others have viewed their relationship with Jesus Christ. Why yearn to be a God being when one could view oneself as being mystically united with Christ by being in a church?
So we now see that HWA's God Family heresy is redundant. If one happens to be mystically one with Christ by being in a church then there is no need to become a God being.
Clearly there is no need to follow HWA or any of his imitators.
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