” GOD’S NATURE IS UNCHANGEABLE. His NATURE and what HE DOES are NOT IDENTICAL constructs, sets, realities.”
That’s good, Q, very patristic; divine essence (ousia) vs. uncreated divine energies. The latter we can experience and share in, the former absolutely not.
Kolo: That’s good, Q, very patristic; divine essence (ousia) vs. uncreated divine energies. The latter we can experience and share in, the former absolutely not.
I don't know that I can agree 100% with the latter statement. Seems to me CHRIST IN US; HIS SPIRIT IN US AS IN THE TEMPLE indicates that we do/will share in the former. Not fully, of course. We shall always be finite compared to His INFINITENESS. Yet, we shall have a much more . . . HIGH BAUD RATE CONNECTION, IMPARTATION, COMMUNION WITH, INDWELLING OF; FEEDING ON; ENLIVENED BY; . . . HIS INFINITE NATURE AND ALL IT'S WONDEROUSNESS that He determines moment by moment to be fitting for each of us.
I think there's something INCREDIBLY AWESOME AND WELL BEYOND our finite comprehension--beyond what man has [been able] to imagine--something incredibly awesome about DADDY'S CHOOSING TO CREATE US, REDEEM US TO BE HIS KIDS AND HIS BUDDIES. I don't imagine the least bit of . . . stinginess [for lack of a better word] . . . about His SHARING on such scores.
If course, I don't pretend to have my finite mind wrapped well around such things either. Just seems that some notions fit my understanding of Scripture and God than others do.