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THEOSIS: PARTAKERS OF DIVINITY WITH GOD<br />

PROF. M. M. NINAN<br />

genealogy the son of Adam who was the son of God to begin with.<br />

Adam.<br />

Thus Paul calls Jesus the Second<br />

Here there is no other interpretation possible - Adam was the son of God, unless Luke made a blunder.<br />

this is true, all mankind form children of God.<br />

If<br />

“Neverthless God decreed that all the children of Adam and Adam should die. What most people do not<br />

realize was that, it was the love of God that led God to confer death on mankind. I have dealt with this in<br />

my book “Love that will not let me go”<br />

(http://www.talentshare.org/~mm9n/articles/love/index.htm) (https://www.createspace.com/650044)<br />

Again in John 10 we see Jesus applying the same passage Psalms 82 within the New Testament context<br />

applying it to the people who are called by God.<br />

The incarnation was the initiative of the Father to bring in this theosis process into mankind. <strong>Theosis</strong>, hence<br />

is the redemption of Adamic race - which gives all the rights and privileges with which Adam was created by<br />

God with His own breath. He put the Spirit of God - a part of God’s life giving energy within Adam’s flesh<br />

.God took the form of man to teach the way back to the tree of life, which essentially was laying down his<br />

own life in love for one’s brethren. This is what Jesus is saying.<br />

This is a direct quote from David:<br />

Psalm 82.6: I said, "You are gods"; you are all sons of the most high.<br />

Peter reflects on the same theme:<br />

2 Peter 1:3–4: God’s “divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness” through the<br />

knowledge of God, who called us by His own glory and goodness. Through these things, He has given us<br />

His great promises so that we “may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that<br />

is in the world through lust.”<br />

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