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What does it mean to be partakers of the divine nature, what does it mean to be adopted into the divine family of God, and what is the ontological nature of those who are born again?

Dr. Michael Heiser with Naked Bible Podcast is back tonight to discuss "theosis." It's Doc Heiser, so you should expect that we will discuss Second Temple Judaism, early church fathers, and the Eastern Orthodox church.

It's my hope that we can distinguish the early church fathers' doctrine of theosis from the ever-growing heresies found in Mormon temple and the "Little God Doctrine" sneaking into some
Word of Faith churches.

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WHAT IS THEOSIS???

Excerpts from
Princeton Theological Monograph Series
Theosis: Deification in Christian Theology
The closest English equivalent of theosis is "deification." In Christian theology,
theosis refers to the transformation of believers into the likeness of God. Of course,
Christian monotheism goes against any literal "god making" of believers. Rather, the NT
speaks of a transformation of mind, a metamorphosis of character, a redefinition of
selfhood, and an imitation of God. Most of these passages are tantalizingly brief, and
none spells out the concept in detail.

Deification was an important idea in the early church, though it took a long time for
[theosis] to emerge as the standard label for the process. The term was coined by the
great fourth-century theologian, Gregory of Nazianzus. Theologians now use theosis to
designate all instances where any idea of taking on God's character or being
"divinized" (made divine) occurs, even when the term [theosis] is not used. And of
course, different Christian authors understood deification differently.
It is difficult to define theosis, but not difficult to cite several biblical passages that
strongly suggest a process of heightened reflection of godly nature, which stimulated
Christian deification discourse. The following grouping of biblical passages is meant to
bring out the logical development of the idea:

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