[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

Thus like an icon, God is apparent in our nature from creation and we are created to become divinized.

Unless I'm mistaken, then, you're basically agreeing with the points I made in my #152 about the "Design Purpose" of Man... right?

(It looks to me like we're in rough agreement, albeit admitting of different terminologies, but I thought I'd ask).

Best, OP

[Kolokotronis]

"Unless I'm mistaken, then, you're basically agreeing with the points I made in my #152 about the "Design Purpose" of Man... right?

(It looks to me like we're in rough agreement, albeit admitting of different terminologies, but I thought I'd ask)."

Well, roughly speaking, yes. But I guess I think that St. Athanasius in De Incarnatione, the Council of Chalcedon and most especially the Council of Ephesus completely defined what you are talking about. Incidentally, the Council of Ephesus, (431) affirmed the holdings of several local councils which condemned Pelagianism, Pelagius and his fellow traveler Celestius who had fled to Constantinople and found a place with Nestorius, though it certainly did not adopt the position of Blessed Augustine (on suspects that at that time the assembled luminaries had little or no idea what +Augustine had written).