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THEOSIS: PARTAKERS OF DIVINITY WITH GOD PROF. M. M. NINAN (hamartía — which is not to be confused with hamártēma “sin”) for participation in the Life (zōé, not simply bíos) of the Trinity — which is everlasting.” This is not to be confused with the heretical (apothéōsis) - "Deification in God’s Essence", which is imparticipable. <strong>Theosis</strong> is “total participation in Jesus Christ.” “All that God is, except for an identity in being, being deified by grace.” St. Maximos the Confessor, 49
THEOSIS: PARTAKERS OF DIVINITY WITH GOD PROF. M. M. NINAN VIII MULTI-DIMENSIONS IN REALMS OF EXISTENCE A NEW APPROACH TO CREATOR AND CREATION ESSENCE-ENERGY EXPLANATION OF THEOSIS IN EASTERN CHURCHES EXPLAINED THEOSIS* - DEIFICATION AS THE PURPOSE OF MAN'S LIFE By Archimandrite George Abbott of the Holy Monastery of St. Gregorios on Mount Athos DEIFICATION IS POSSIBLE THROUGH THE UNCREATED ENERGIES OF GOD In the Orthodox Church of Christ man can achieve deification because, according to the teachings of the Holy Bible and the Fathers of the Church, the Grace of God is uncreated. God is not only essence, as the West thinks; He is also energy. If God was only essence, we could not unite with Him, could not commune with Him, because the essence of God is awesome and unapproachable for man, in accordance with: ‘Never will man see My face and live’ (Exod. 33:20). ……If we were able to unite with the essence of God, we too would become gods in essence. In other words everything would become a god, …..Pantheism. Again, if God had only the divine essence – of which we cannot partake – and did not have His energies, He would remain a self-sufficient god, closed within himself and unable to commune with his creatures. >> Even within the Trinity itself unless we assume that they form one organism the interpersonal communication and relations as serving, glorifying and communicating will not be possible without the energia assumption.
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