Acts 17:28 (NRSV) — Theosis
For “In him we live and move and have our being”; as even some of your own poets have said, “For we, too, are his offspring.”
For “In him we live and move and have our being”; as even some of your own poets have said, “For we, too, are his offspring.”
That same sociality which exists among us here will exist among us there, only it will be coupled with eternal glory.
So Jesus said to them, “Very truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal life, and I will raise them up on the last day; for my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink. Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me, and I in them. Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever eats me will live because of me.”
IrenaeusIf the Word became a man, it was so men may become gods.