Cosmos Body of God

COSMOS THE BODY OF GOD: ISA PURUSHA TATVA
M.M.NINAN
"the Word became flesh and the Son of God became the Son of Man: so that man, by entering into
communion with the Word and thus receiving divine sonship, might become a son of God" —St.
Irenaeus, Adv Haer III 19,1
“Souls wherein the Spirit dwells, illuminated by the Spirit, themselves become spiritual, and send
forth their grace to others. Hence comes . . . abiding in God, the being made like to God, and, highest
of all, the being made god.” —St. Basil the Great, On the Spirit.
“let us become the image of the one whole God, bearing nothing earthly in ourselves, so that we may
consort with God and become gods, receiving from God our existence as gods” —St. Maximus the
Confessor
II Peter 1:3-4 He has given us all the things that we need for life and for true devotion, bringing us to
know God himself... through them you will be able to share the divine nature.
The Only-begotten Son of God, wanting us to be partakers of his divinity, assumed our human nature
so that, having become man, he might make men gods. —St. Thomas Aquinas
Ephesians 4:13 In this way we are all to come to unity in our faith and in our knowledge of the Son of
God, until we become the perfect Man, fully mature with the fullness of Christ himself.
This concept of deification or the process of becoming part of God’s body is staggering as C.S.Lewis
writes in his book “The Weight of Glory”:
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