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A essay on Creation’s Purpose:

To display the fullness of God and to see the fullness of God in creation. This fullness given to us by Christ, by the price of His life, now gives us the power to become human again. Not only human but to become like God and share in His divinity. And this union with Christ is not merging us to be God but to partake of the divine life in so we are intimate but differentiated. Amen.

“When, then, you cast yourself at the brethren’s knees, you are handling Christ, you are entreating Christ. In like manner, when they shed tears over you, it’s Christ you suffers, Christ who prays the Father for mercy”

“…emotions shared between beliebers are not predicated on human relationships but rather are constitutive of a divinely human experience”

We are more united than we think as a church!

“Christians are in a significant sense ontologically identified with and even as Christ himself. Moreover, he contends that Christ’s recapitulatory salvation is actuated by Christ as the Head rising from the dead so that “the remaining part of the body” may partake of the immortality and incorruptibility that properly belongs to Christ alone.”

I wonder, if this is why Paul uses the phrase “upward call”

Starting to lose interest in some of these essays

Read the first essay. The argument is that, in Paul’s undisputed letters, he is arguing for a conformity to the Messiah, and the Messiah is a human AND divine figure. So we are conformed into the image of Christ in humanity and divinity (deification). I’m pretty on board, but I need to read more. Hopefully there will be more essays that flesh this out!