To: Kolokotronis; Alamo-Girl
I take it you understand Christians to be in a state of perfect theosis, in other words, that they have arrived at a likeness of God to such an extent that demons not only do not trouble them, they flee from them? It's Romans 6, Kolo. That's where the rub is.
7,083 posted on
01/20/2007 1:48:01 PM PST by
kosta50
(Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
To: kosta50
"It's Romans 6, Kolo. That's where the rub is."
Well, I just read it in English and Greek. I don't see where one gets instant theosis out of Rom. 6. Were that the case, why is +Paul bothering to speak to the Romans. If the fix is in, the fix is in. Rom. 6 seems to be telling us what Christ has done for us and how we are to conform our free will to respond to that. In other words, we've now got another chance to get it right. What am I missing, Kosta?
7,088 posted on
01/20/2007 2:08:43 PM PST by
Kolokotronis
(Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
To: kosta50
"It's Romans 6, Kolo. That's where the rub is."
Take a look at the end of +John Chrysostomos' Homily X and all of Homily XI on Romans.
7,092 posted on
01/20/2007 2:30:40 PM PST by
Kolokotronis
(Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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