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THEOSIS: PARTAKERS OF DIVINITY WITH GOD PROF. M. M. NINAN godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.” similar to the Adam Eve in the garden of Eden .[2 Cor. 11:2-4] Thus Paul indicates that the situation is In the writing to the Church in Rome,Paul writes, "Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God" .[Romans 7] Here, Paul seems to suggest that the Church is to be married to Jesus Christ of Nazareth, who was raised from the dead. The portion in Revelation 19:7-10 describing the marriage scene in which the Bridegroom makes His Bride His wife, is worthy of full consideration. A woman, of course, only becomes a wife on the completion of her marriage to the man to whom she has been engaged or espoused. In this age of Grace, the church is the affianced Bride of Christ. At the marriage of the Lamb, she becomes His wedded wife (Ephesians 5:22, 23; 2 Corinthians 11:2). What it means in terms of trinity is that the believers form part of the family of Jesus. Do we become a god alongside of the Son. Not necessarily in terms of the essence but in terms of power, position and authority yes. This is similar to the adoption concept. Here it is presented as marriage which is deeper than adoption. 11
Thus Church today is the bride of the Son of God. THEOSIS: PARTAKERS OF DIVINITY WITH GOD PROF. M. M. NINAN The communion table is still the proposal of the bridegroom to the mankind - an invitation to join with him and the body of Christ. Even those who do not understand what theosis is all about, we can see the Bible calls the Church as the body of Christ. That in itself is simply a statement of theosis. Church will one day become the wife of the lamb. Marriage of the Lamb will come. That picture is described all through the Bible. “Let us rejoice and be overjoyed . . . because the marriage of the Lamb has arrived.” —REVELATION 19:7. The bride is brought to her Bridegroom, the Messianic King. He has prepared and cleansed her “by means of the word.” She is “holy and without blemish.” (Ephesians 5:26, 27) His bride is dressed appropriately. Revelation 19:8.“It has been granted to her to be clothed with bright, clean, fine linen—for the fine linen stands for the righteous acts of the holy ones.” Gen 2: 24: For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh. Are all these simply allegories? Is there any meaning in the words Body of Christ, Bride of Christ, Marriage of Christ etc.? Are we being fooled? Are they just parables for something which means we will be given immortality someday sometime? What does new birth and new creation and spirit living in us and Christ in us means? Is it just to remind us to be obedient to the slave master’s orders? This explains the teaching of the early fathers: “God became Man, so that man can become god.” So that they can become one flesh. They will have at least those material dimensions plus the spirit within as common dimensions to join. Probably it will be easier for some people if I translate it as “Son of God became man, so that men can become sons of God.” or should we say ‘Daughter in law of God’ ? Ephesians 3:14-19 For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints 12
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