You’ve missed Kosta’s point. Your comment about “sharers in the divine nature” is classic Latin theology and is a product of what we believe to be the false concept of created grace which marks a divide between Orthodoxy and the Latin Church in a whole host of areas but it pops up most usually in sacramental theology and popular concepts of indulgences and purgatory. Until the Middle Ages and before the Great Schism, The Church NEVER EVER taught that we become sharers in the divine nature. Indeed the consensus patrum taught quite the opposite. +Gregory Palamas struggled with this Western innovation and expressed the belief of The Church well thusly:
“Three realities pertain to God: essence, energy, and the triad of divine hypostases. As we have seen, those privileged to be united to God so as to become one spirit with Him - as St. Paul said, ‘He who cleaves to the Lord is one spirit with Him’ are not united to God with respect to His essence, since all theologians testify that with respect to His essence God suffers no participation.
Moreover, the hypostatic union is fulfilled only in the case of the Logos, the God-man.
Thus those privileged to attain union with God are united to Him with respect to His energy; and the ‘spirit’, according to which they who cleave to God are one with Him, is and is called the uncreated energy of the Holy Spirit, but not the essence of God.”
What the West translates as “nature” is the Greek word “ousia” which in the above quote is translated as “essence”. The implications of what you have written are potentially devastating to our shared Christian theology.
“”What the West translates as “nature” is the Greek word “ousia” which in the above quote is translated as “essence”.””
Please forgive my ignorance on this ,but it seems like a translation error rather than what the west actually teaches.
I came across this article ,which I thought was pretty good
http://www.antiochian.org/node/16916