Does God share His glory with all believers?
Does God share His glory with all believers? According to Isaiah 42:8 and Isaiah 48:11, God does not share His glory with anyone (except Jesus - John 1:14; 17:5; 17:24); however, in John 17:22 it appears that Jesus said that God will give His glory to all believers. Who is Jesus referring to in John 17:22? Will all believers receive the same glory that God has?
John 17:22
ESV - 22 The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one.
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Albert DeBenedictis
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Tim Maas
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To me, the key word in responding to this question is "believers". No one has the right to share in God's glory if seeking to do it in a spirit of presumption or sinful self-glorification (as in the passages from Isaiah cited in the question). However, God rewards those who seek Him in a proper spirit of humility characterized by recognition of their need of the forgiveness of sin that can be obtained only through faith in Christ, who exhibited the same humility through His incarnation, suffering, and death. It is that spirit and faith that God then rewards in eternity by allowing those believers to share in the same glory that the resurrected and ascended Christ possesses, and will possess, forever.
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