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To: P-Marlowe; xzins; Blogger
"God became man, that man might become God." Anastasius

That can't be right, isn't that an LDS belief? That we will evolve into Gods. I think one of the EO on this thread said he meant we would share in his divine essence.

5,602 posted on 01/12/2007 9:04:30 PM PST by wmfights (LUKE 9:49-50 , MARK 9:38-41)
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To: wmfights; xzins; Blogger
I think one of the EO on this thread said he meant we would share in his divine essence

The EO would not have said that. We do not share in divine essence. Those who become Christ-like share in His divinity by grace (uncreated enegries), not by nature.

5,610 posted on 01/12/2007 9:12:51 PM PST by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: wmfights; P-Marlowe; xzins; Blogger

"I think one of the EO on this thread said he meant we would share in his divine essence."

I sincerely doubt that any Orthodox here said we would share the Divine Essence. The Latins, or at least some of them, hold that position. Orthodoxy teaches that theosis is coming into union with the uncreated Divine Energies of God because God allows no union with His Divine Essence, in effect becoming "divinized" but not "deified" or in some manner obliterated by or absorbed into God (the Latins don't believe that we are absorbed into God either so far as I know). cf +Gregory Palamas

Just as a matter of curiosity, what do Protestants think happens to those who have attained theosis?


5,650 posted on 01/13/2007 4:53:36 AM PST by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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