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== [[Oral Tradition|Oral Tradition, Folklore, Myths and Legends]] ==
* Christian [[Fanon]] frequently declares or assumes that humans become angels -- which by definition are lesser divine creatures -- when they die and go to Heaven. This is not only never stated anywhere in the Bible or other definitive sources, but some sources make it clear that becoming an angel would be [[Humans Are Special|a step ''down'' for a human soul]]. For instance, 2 Peter 1:4 declares that one of Christ's goals was to make it possible for humans to partake of the nature of God. These same sources also never state that in doing so human souls ''become'' gods, making mainstream Christianity an aversion despite its accumulated folklore. Meanwhile, Christ himself is an inversion, being an incarnation of the existing Creator, rather than a mortal who attained divinity.
** The patriarch [[w:Enoch|Enoch]], father of Methuselah, is an odd case. According to [[The Bible/Source/Genesis#5|Genesis 5:24]], "...Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him." This is interpreted in many Christian and Jewish traditions to mean that he physically ascended into Heaven without dying, but in no formal scripture is anything more said about him or his post-ascension status. The [[w:Apocrypha|Apocrypha]] called the [[w:Book of Enoch|Book of Enoch]]
* [[Mormonism]] includes among its tenets a belief called "exaltation", in which the faithful will ascend to heaven and eventually become lesser gods subordinate to God while dwelling with Him through eternity. They believe that one purpose for Christ's mission and atonement was to allow the deification of mortal men, which will (eventually) happen in the afterlife to those who properly embraced Mormon beliefs before the final judgment.
* Unlike the subjects of most of the "hero cults" of [[Ancient Greece]] (which resembled ancestor worship more than anything else), [[Classical Mythology/Characters#Mortals and Demigods|Heracles]] and [[w:Asclepius|Asclepius]] were (at least sometimes) venerated as mortals who had ascended to become true gods.
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