See, discussion and conversation is much better than namecalling and guttersniping :>)
I also agree that the process was not simple, and a lot of human desires and thoughts had to be filtered. God uses man to accomplish his will, and when man is attuned to God, God's will triumphs over everything.
“I also agree that the process was not simple, and a lot of human desires and thoughts had to be filtered.”
And a lot of what passed not merely for inspirational writings, but indeed among some for scripture itself had to be filtered through the “Orthodoxia”, the “right” or “correct” praise of The Church which represented what Christians then believed.
“God uses man to accomplish his will, and when man is attuned to God, God’s will triumphs over everything.”
When human beings die to the self so that the “eye” of the soul, what we call the “nous”, is focused on Christ and not on ourselves, then we have no desires of our own but rather our will has been replaced by God’s will and we are in a state of theosis.