Monday, July 12, 2004
Deification and You
This is quite a treatment of the doctrine of deification, by which, in the worst way to say it, "man becomes God". This has always worried me because none of it made sense and I didn't have the time to sort everything out. However, CACL, with a combination of biblical insight, German mystics
God must clothe Himself with human nature, must put it on, as in the deification of man the man must put on the form and character of God. In this event humanity is engrafted in a divine person, as in the other case a shoot of divinity is, so to speak, engrafted in man. Both cases are utterly astounding, supernatural, and mysterious: that a human person share in the divine nature, and that a divine person assume a human nature . . .and common sense, makes me realize that I'm really not a pagan, much to the depression of certain Baptist friends of mine. AND he manages to tie mater Maria in as well for a most impressive and edifying conclusion.
