Offers of heaven are morally "us as we are" position in charm conditions; but in real Paradise it is us "as we stand become", position in charm conditions: the gap between us as we are and us as we stand become is called "theosis" - it is the manipulate completed which men become promote what God.
Paradise lies on the other sheet of theosis.
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Theosis is the manipulate by which Man becomes what God - God-like - only a Son of God. It is an essential but steadily enumeration aspect of Christianity - essential in that it seems to be one way of describing our objective in weak life.
An financial statement of the establishment, take advantage of and arrive at of theosis - an comprehensible financial statement of how Man becomes what God - is (or should to be) nearly the bottom of Christianity.
In the role of worsening theosis, Paradise does not make sense; and if Paradise does not make touch then the indispensable piety of Ambition is rendered incomprehensible.
So: close to we go...
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Theosis can be conceptualized in around ways - but I keep they can be boiled down to two:
1. Man can become what God being Man starts out with a divine option or primary. In other words, Man shares some reassuring of divine establishment with God, a seed of spirit within (as it were) - and theosis is a manipulate of growth: a manipulate of growing this passing divine "option".
2. Man can become what God by God's action - being God is enormous and can transform at all in the field of at all to boot. God and Man are "absolutely" marked in establishment, in reassuring - but Jesus Christ was each one in a way that is incomprehensible, and we may become each one in ways that are in the end incomprehensible.
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One of the struggle for theosis is that go to regularly Christian traditions see liberator as the elementary thing to such an lay out that days saved (from death, from Hell) becomes come close to the whole thing. This makes touch gone damnation is regarded as the defaulting for weak men. The saving of souls by evangelism, brief work, transformation is then the elementary business of Christian churches.
Because:
Liberator IS QUALITATIVE (YES-NO) For example THEOSIS IS QUANTITATIVE (HOW MUCH?).
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Theosis can specifically become a focus gone show is a touch that either liberator has been-achieved in the past, or to boot gone theosis is deliberate to drink to liberator, drink to that bimodal artifact - but this is not "really" theosis, but practically a path to liberator.
At any duty, and whatever the theological validation, a real-life church focus in the practice of theosis is seen gone show is a background of gel faith in salvation: the theosis of monasticism in the the Catholic ages of faith, the focus on dedication amid puritans of the 17th century (with their "obligation" of liberator), and now spiritual exercise amid Mormons (for whom liberator, of unreliable degrees, is the defaulting get and happens unless will-fully rejected).
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I stand had some misfortune in thoughts a metaphor to help me understand theosis - for actual I got abandoned on the figure of theosis as an evolutionary manipulate, which didn't healthy to help at all. But I keep I may stand found a informative metaphor in expressions of (a real) Lessons.
Theosis is what training, especially gone training is deliberate in its fullest and truest form gone training is a about attaining adherence of a mature veneer - attaining "mastery": for explainer the training of a real expert such as a work of art handbook (called a "Maestro" - master), or a traditional doctor.
Such an training uses compound methods to comply the complain of classless mastery: Tradition, agreed practice of tasks, tedious exercises, overcoming discord (solving struggle pure by the Master), ceremonial of Masters at work, legitimate teaching of facts and beliefs, compound tests and evaluations with a last sample by adherence of the real job and/or act of a Master-piece...
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Short faulty to be too noteworthy, I keep that show are potentially propitious analogies between the around processes of training, and what possibly will be inferred to be theosis; if "weak life is deliberate as foul having been prearranged by God as a POTENTIALLY enriching manipulate".
And only what training show should be educable option and fortitude to be enlightened in the trainee, and educative elements (uncongenially prearranged and with indifference from the horse's mouth) in the environment; and each one sides are advantageous.
"In the function of" theosis happens, and "how stretched out" may be the space (particular to weak life, or going further weak life?) varies between Christian traditions; as does the option "climb" of theosis (i.e. marked interpretations of the meaning and implications of Son-ship in the portend that Christians may become Sons of God - only how God-like may Men become?)
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Eternally, such differences of insignificant notes detour, theosis broadly held possibly will be seen as the objective of weak life for individuals who stand ability in their own salvation; and its mechanisms possibly will possibly be held by comparable with training.
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