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Oct 30, 2026
Darrell FitzwaterHOST
And so when Christians are growing in sanctification, as you said, they're growing in their practical divinity, practical holiness.
Darrell FitzwaterHOST
Theosis is underway.
Darrell FitzwaterHOST
They're becoming more actively like Christ, taking dominion over the things in their heart.
Darrell FitzwaterHOST
Being born of the Spirit already gives you authority over all the power of the flesh.
Daniel GarlandGUEST
So this bread is very profitable because it gives eternal life to the soul, but it is so also because it gives eternal life to the body, right? Now, this reception of the Eucharist leads to, in the West, what's known as deification.
Daniel GarlandGUEST
In the East, my tradition, we call theosis.
Daniel GarlandGUEST
Theosis.
Daniel GarlandGUEST
Now, this is not becoming divine.
Daniel GarlandGUEST
This is not a change of our nature.
Ben PotzschGUEST
Instead of like, oh, I believe in Christ and that's it.
Jim BobGUEST
So theosis.
Jim BobGUEST
Theosis.
Jim BobGUEST
Like being like God, being like Christ, being like God, right? Being like Christ.
Jim BobGUEST
That's what the saints are about.
Mike ScherschligtHOST
Divinization is one.
Mike ScherschligtHOST
The same word, theosis.
Mike ScherschligtHOST
Theosis.
Mike ScherschligtHOST
It means to become God.
TeresaHOST
I can't, I truly can't think of any... religion or even fantasy religion any sci-fi or fantasy concept that even dares to come close to that
Charlie MooreGUEST
Not in your essence, of course, you don't become God, but truly you have been united to God through Christ.
Charlie MooreGUEST
Now, this verse has been the source of no shortage of false doctrines, both from Eastern Orthodox that have a mystical view of sanctification called Theosis, and I'm not going to get down into the weeds, but let's just suffice it to say theosis muddies the waters between justification and sanctification, and I think theosis muddies the waters between creature and creator distinction in what they have to say about this verse in 2 Peter.
Charlie MooreGUEST
It's also been abused by the health, wealth, and prosperity gospel that teaches the doctrine of little g gods, that you actually become a god, a co-creator with Him.
Charlie MooreGUEST
Side note, hermeneutically, hermeneutics means the science of interpreting the Bible, anytime someone bases an entire doctrine off of one verse, it should raise yellow if not red flags in your brain.
Chad KimHOST
Yeah, yeah.
Chad KimHOST
For listeners, if you're new, we have an interview with Mike Hobbits, or Hobbits, I can't remember if I pronounce it right, who wrote on Theosis and Athanasius.
Chad KimHOST
Or actually, no, sorry, that was T.F. Torrance.
Chad KimHOST
It was what his was on.
Chad KimHOST
And that can be easily missed.
Brandon D. SmithGUEST
Well, it's great that you mentioned Mike because he's doing a TNT Clark handbook on this.
Brandon D. SmithGUEST
And I am writing the chapter in that handbook on Baptists, Athanasius, and Theosis.
Brandon D. SmithGUEST
So I've got to figure out how to work this out in an actual academic sense.
Frater RCHOST
You can call it many things.
Frater RCHOST
Theosis, right? Alchemy.
Frater RCHOST
Archeme.
Frater RCHOST
Archeme is a good term for that.
Bill VanderbushHOST
Listen, union with Christ only comes by grace.
Bill VanderbushHOST
Theosis only comes by grace.
Bill VanderbushHOST
Religion that treats the body and the material world as the problem is demonic in nature.
Bill VanderbushHOST
And Paul calls it, some of you are getting free right now.
Ted NottinghamHOST
The early church had a word for the goal of all this.
Ted NottinghamHOST
Theosis, deification, God-realization, the human being become by grace a partaker of the divine nature, as the second letter of Peter dares to say.
Ted NottinghamHOST
God became human so that human beings might become godlike, said the early teachers, and they were not being poetic.
Ted NottinghamHOST
Jesus did not come to found a religion.
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