Pauls Theology of Redemption

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Pauls Theology of Redemption
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Eph 21 And you he made
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Eph 21 when you were dead
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through the trespasses and sins
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Eph 22 in which you once walked, following the
course of this world,
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the course of this world
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the course of this world
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Respect
the course of this world
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Jam 114-15 but each person is tempted when he
is lured and enticed by his own desire. Jam 115
Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to
sin and sin when it is full-grown brings forth
death.
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the prince of the power of the air,
I beheld falling as lighning from heaven - Jesus
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Casting Down of the Rebellious Angels by Gustave
Dore'
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the prince of the power of the air,
I will ascend to heaven. I will raise my throne
above the stars of God. I will sit on the mount
of the assembly in the recesses of the north. I
will ascend above the heights of the clouds.  I
will make myself like the Most High.
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the prince of the power of the air,
1Pe 58 Be sober, be watchful. Your adversary
the devil prowls around like a roaring lion,
seeking some one to devour.
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Greek Cosmology
Heavenlies
Atmosphere
Earth
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Jewish Cosmology
Atziluth Divine Realm-Archetypal World (World
of Emanations) or Divine World Briah- Spiritual
RealsmCreative World or World of
Thrones Yetsirah- Mental RealmFormative
World Assiah- Material RealmManifest World
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The Unknown
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Fall of Lucifer
Cherubim Seraphim
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Prince of the Power of Air
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DivineThird Heaven
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SpiritualSecond Heaven
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Angels
"I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago,
(whether in the body, I cannot tell or whether
out of the body, I cannot tell God knoweth)
such an one caught up to the third heaven" (2
Cor. 122)
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following - the spirit that is now at
work in the sons of
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Eph 23 Among these we all once lived in the
passions of our flesh,
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Eph 23 following the
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desires of Bodyand mind,
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Eph 23 and so we were by nature children of
wrath,
like the rest of mankind.
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Eph 24 But God,
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Eph 24 who is rich in mercy,
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Eph 24 out of the great love
with which
he loved
us,
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Eph 25 even when we were dead through our
trespasses,
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Eph 25 even when we were dead through our
trespasses,
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3 Compound Words
Sun With
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Eph 25 made us alive together with Christ
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1. Suzoopoieo
s????p??e?
Sun With Zoo Alive Poieo Make
Make alive with Christ. Col 213
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Eph 25 (by grace you have been saved),
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2. Sunegerio
s??e?e???
Sun with Egerio energized,
alive, awaken,
lifted up
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Eph 26 and raised us up with him,
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Eph 26 and made us sit with him
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3. Sunkathizo
s???a????
Sun with Kathiso cause to sit down
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Eph 26 in the heavenly places in Christ
Jesus,
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Joh 112 But to all who received him, who
believed in his name, he gave power to become
children of God
Christ
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Pauline Theology of Redemption
The Secret Mystical Teaching of Israel
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"They have not known, and they do not understand
In darkness they keep walking about All the
foundations of the earth are made to totter.


I myself have said, 'You are gods, And all of you
are sons of the Most High."
Psalms 825

Psalms 825
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Giovanni Domenico TiepoloVenetian, 1727 -
1804Christ Leading Peter, James, and John to the
Transfiguration
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John 17 21THAT THEY MAY ALL BE ONE EVEN AS YOU,
FATHER, ARE IN ME, AND I IN YOU, THAT THEY ALSO
MAY BE IN US, 21 ??a p??te? ?? ?s??? ?a??? s??
p?te?? ?? ?µ?? ???? ?? s??? ??a ?a? a?t?? ?? ?µ??

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John 17 22THAT THEY MAY BE  ONE EVEN AS WE ARE
ONE, ??a ?s?? ?? ?a??? ?µe?? ???
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2 Peter 13 YOU MAY BECOME PARTAKERS of the
DIVINE NATURE and escape from the corruption
that is in the world because of passion. ????s?e
?e?a? ???????? f?se??? ?p? f????te? t?? ?? t?
??sµ? ?? ?p???µ?? f?????.
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My dear people, we are already the children of
God but what we are to be in the future has not
yet been revealed all we know is, that when it
is revealed we shall be like him because we shall
see him as he really is. I John 32
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It is a serious thing to live in a society of
possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the
dullest and most uninteresting person you talk to
may one day be a creature which, if you saw it
now, you would be strongly tempted to worship. .
. The Weight of Glory
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(God) said that we were "gods" and He is going to
make good His words. If we let Him-for we can
prevent Him if we chooseHe will make the
feeblest and filthiest of us into a god or
goddess, dazzling, radiant, immortal creature,
pulsating all through with such energy and joy
and wisdom and love as we cannot now imagine, a
bright stainless mirror which reflects back to
God perfectly (though, of course, on a smaller
scale) His own boundless power and delight and
goodness. The process will be long and in parts
very painful but that is what we are in for. C.
S. Lewis, Mere Christianity 174-5 God said to
this hairless monkey, "get on with it, become a
god." C. S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
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Jesus answered Is it not written in your Law I
said, you are gods? So the Law uses the word gods
of those to whom the word of God was addressed,
and scripture cannot be rejected. John 1034-35
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. . . the Spirit and our spirit bear united
witness that we are children of God. And if we
are children we are heirs of God and co-heirs
with Christ, sharing his sufferings so as to
share his glory." Rom. 815-17
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. . the two will become one body. . . This
mystery applies to Christ and the Church. Eph.
531-32
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They (those who love him) are the ones he chose
specially long ago and intended to become true
images of his Son, so that his Son might be the
eldest of many brothers. Rom
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By Christ, God) hath given us most great and
precious promises that by these you may be made
partakers of the divine nature flying the
corruption of that concupiscence which is in the
world." (II Peter 14) "For whom (God) forknew,
he also predestinated to be made conformable to
the image of His Son, that he might be the
firstborn amongst many brethren." (Romans 829)
"We all beholding the glory of the Lord with
open face, are transformed into the same image
from glory into glory, as by the Spirit of the
Lord." (II Corinthians 318) "We see now through
a glass in a dark manner but then face to face.
Now I know in part but then I shall know even as
I am known." (I Corinthians 1312) "It hath not
yet appeared what we shall be. We know that, whe
he shall appear, we shall be like to Him because
we shall see Him as He is." (I John 32)
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Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit
of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we, with
our unveiled faces reflecting like mirrors the
brightness of the Lord, all grow brighter and
brighter as we are turned into the image that we
reflect this is the work of the Lord who is
Spirit. 2 Cor. 317-18
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I am the light of the world. Jesus, John 812
You are the light of the world. Jesus, Matt.
514
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...if God has made you son, then he has made you
heir.Gal. 47
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"God brings the dead to life as partakers of fire
or light. But whether even all shall hereafter
partake of God, let it be elsewhere discussed."
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Saint Gregory Nazianzen, The Risen Christ
"still pleads even now as Man for my salvation,
for He continues to wear the Body which He
assumed, until He makes me God by the power of
His Incarnation" 4.
330390, Cappadocian theologian, Doctor of the
Church, one of the Four Fathers of the Greek
Church. He is sometimes called Gregory Theologus.
He studied widely in his youth and was from his
student days a friend of St. Basil the Great.
Basil appointed the unwilling Gregory to a
bishopric, and Gregory succeeded him as principal
leader of the conciliatory party in the church
struggle against Arianism. In 379, Gregory was
chosen bishop of Constantinople. By his preaching
he wrought a great revival of orthodoxy there.
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He has called men gods that are deified of His
Grace, not born of His Substance. St. Augustine
354-430 AD By 396 he had become bishop of Hippo
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Souls wherein the Spirit dwells, illuminated by
the Spirit, themselves become spiritual, and send
forth their grace to others. Hence comes . . .
abiding in God, the being made like to God, and,
highest of all, the being made God. St. Basil
the Great, On the Spirit.
Greek bishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia after
A.D. 370 and a vigorous opponent of Arianism.
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The Word became flesh to make us partakers of
the divine nature (2 Pet 14) For this is why
the Word became man, 1265, 1391 and the Son of
God became the Son of man so that man, by
entering into communion with the Word and thus
receiving divine sonship, might become a son of
God. (St. Irenaeus, Adversus haereses . 3, 19,
1 PG 7/1.939)
St. Irenaeus (A.D. 125-202) was born around the
year A.D. 125, a native of Asia Minor.  While
very young, St. Irenaeus became the pupil of  St.
Polycarp in Smyrna.  St. Polycarp is one of the
Apostolic Fathers, having been a pupil of the
Apostle St. John.  St. Irenaeus became a priest
of the Church of Lyons during the prosecution of
Marcus Aurelius. In A.D. 177, Irenaeus was sent
to Rome.  St. Irenaeus returned to Lyons to
occupy the vacant bishopric, by which time the
persecutions had ceased. Almost all of writings
of St. Irenaeus were directed against Gnosticism,
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For the Son of God became man so that we might
BECOME GOD.(St. Athanasius, De inc., 54, 3 PG
25, 192B)
ST ATHANASIUS, PATRIARCH OF ALEXANDRIA, DOCTOR
OF THE CHURCH the great champion of orthodoxy
during the Arian crisis of the 4th century.
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God gave himself to us through his Spirit. By
the participation of the Spirit, we become
communicants in the divine 460 nature ... For
this reason, THOSE IN WHOM THE SPIRIT DWELLS ARE
DIVINIZED. (St. Athanasius, Ep. Serap. 1, 24 PG
26.585 588)
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The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us
sharers in his divinity, assumed our nature, so
that he, made man, might MAKE MEN GODS. (St.
Thomas Aquinas, Opusc. 57 1-4).
12251274.Italian Dominican friar, theologian,
and philosopher. The most influential thinker of
the medieval period,
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Redeemed
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"The main tenet of the Orthodox faith is the
belief that salvation is by being united with
Christ who is Isvara incarnate. By being united
with Him, we are to grow into God's image by
becoming more and more god-like in character, in
love, in goodness and in wisdom. This process of
transformation is called theosis or divinization."
Paulos Mar Gregorios
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Let us make Man in our own image.Gen 126-28
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Let us make Man in our own image.Gen 126-28
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Psa 85 thou hast made him little less than God,
and dost crown him with glory and honor.

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Gen 324 He drove out the man and at the east
of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim, and
a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard
the way to the tree of life.
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After the fall A Cherubim protected the tree of
life until Man was ready to enter and partake of
it.
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Heb 27 Thou didst make him for a little while
lower than the angels, thou hast crowned him with
glory and honor,
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Gal 323 Now before faith came, we were confined
under the law, kept under restraint until faith
should be revealed.
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Gal 323 Now before faith came, we were confined
under the law, kept under restraint until faith
should be revealed.

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Joh 112 But to all who received him, who
believed in his name, he gave power to become
children of God
Christ
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Rom 814-17 For all who are led by the Spirit
of God are sons of God. For you did not receive
the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but
you have received the spirit of sonship. When we
cry, "Abba! Father!" It is the Spirit himself
bearing witness with our spirit that we are
children of God, and if children, then heirs,
heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ,
provided we suffer with him in order that we may
also be glorified with him.
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Heb 114 Are they not all ministering spirits
sent forth to serve, for the sake of those who
are to obtain salvation?
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The Tree contains ten centers called sephiroth,
individually sephira, which are connected by 22
paths.
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Mother Holy Spirit Mercy
Father Justice
Incarnation Son
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Eph 27 that in the coming ages he might show
the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness
toward us in Christ Jesus.
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The real anthropological meaning of deification
is Christification. Christ as "the image of the
invisible God, the first-born of all creation"
(Col 115), "every man" to become "mature in
Christ" (Col 128), "have come to fullness of
life in Him" (Col. 210). "to mature manhood, to
the measure of the stature of the fullness of
Christ" (Eph 413), to acquire "the mind of
Christ" (1 Cor. 216), the heart of Christ (cf.
Eph 317)
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And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and
we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only
begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
And of His fullness we have all received..."
(John 114, 16). "For you know the grace of our
Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet
for your sakes He became poor, that you through
His poverty might become rich" (II Corinthians
89). "There is therefore now no condemnation to
those who are in Christ Jesus... But you are not
in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the
Spirit of God dwells in you. Romans 81
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"it has not yet been revealed what we shall be,
but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be
like Him, for we shall see Him as He is," (I
John 32).
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When we unite ourselves unto Christ we become
"transformed into the same image from glory to
glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord" (II
Corinthians 318). "And as we have borne the
image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the
image of the heavenly Man" (I Corinthians
1549).
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The Purpose of Being is to Become
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After Darwin, people came to realize that God has
not finished the creation of the world. He is
still creating. Tilhard DeChardin, the great
anthropologist, believed that the destiny of man
is to rise toward spiritual perfection until at
last he is united with God.
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Bishop Maximos Aghiorgiussis writes, "The fathers
make a distinction between the image of God in
man, and his likeness to God image is the
potential given to man, through which he can
obtain the life of theosis (communion with God).
Likeness with God is the actualization of this
potential it is becoming more and more what one
already is becoming more and more God's image,
more and more God-like. The distinction between
image and likeness is, in other words, the
distinction between being and becoming."
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Theosis in no way means that human beings "become
God" in a pantheistic sense. God is by nature
unknowable in His essence. He becomes knowable
through His energies, which are the ways by which
He, in His grace, has opened Himself to us. "No
one has seen God at any time. The only begotten
Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has
declared Him" (John 118). Although not capable
of knowing God in His essence, we are capable of
knowing Him through His energies, since He is
present in each of His energies.
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The New Age lie
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St. Basil "We know our God from His energies,
but we do not claim that we can draw near to His
essence, for His energies come down to us, but
His essence remains unapproachable. Man's
knowledge of God can be only of His energies, not
of His essence.
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Humanization "We are not human beings we are
human becomings" M.M.Thomas
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