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To: Kolokotronis

This participation can, by an openness to God’s “grace” lead to a “dying to the self” so that the Christian exists only within the love of God, a situation where the eye of the soul sees no longer “as through a glass darkly” but rather is so focused on God that the Christian can clearly “see” and become one with the uncreated energies of God in the form of the Divine Light which the apostles experienced at Mount Tabor. We consider this to be beyond any “personal relationship with God”.

Thanks for the explanation, it is a very different approach.

5,232 posted on 12/12/2010 7:00:12 PM PST by Forest Keeper ((It is a joy to me to know that God had my number, before He created numbers.))

To: Forest Keeper

"Thanks for the explanation, it is a very different approach."

It's the oldest approach in Christianity, FK.

5,240 posted on 12/12/2010 7:25:08 PM PST by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated)

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