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To: Blogger

Gee, Blogger, I don't see the word "relationship" anywhere in the passages you quoted. What I do see is definition after definion of what our created purpose is and how we fulfill that.

"'Can a man take fire into his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?' says the wise Solomon. And I say: can he, who has in his heart the Divine fire of the Holy Spirit burning naked, not be set on fire, not shine and glitter and not take on the radiance of the Deity in the degree of his purification and penetration by fire? For penetration by fire follows upon purification of the heart, and again purification of the heart follows upon penetration by fire, that is, inasmuch as the heart is purified, so it receives Divine grace, and again inasmuch as it receives grace, so it is purified. When this is completed (that is, purification of heart and acquisition of grace have attained their fullness and perfection), through grace a man becomes wholly a god." +Symeon the New Theologian


3,245 posted on 12/31/2006 11:55:09 AM PST by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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To: Kolokotronis

So a Son is not a relationship? Fellowship does not indicate a relationship.

You're just being contrary to be contrary now.


3,246 posted on 12/31/2006 12:17:15 PM PST by Blogger
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