For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you received a spirit of adoption, through which we cry, "Abba, Father!" The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if only we suffer with him so that we may also be glorified with him. Romans 8:15
If adopted children of God and brothers of Christ, we become divine not by nature but by adoption and participation.
-—”If adopted children of God and brothers of Christ, we become divine not by nature but by adoption and participation.”-—
NO, we most certainly do NOT!
We humans can’t even be “good” let alone “divine”.
ONLY Jesus was ever, or ever will be, “divine”.
WE humans on the other hand can only be saved or lost.
WE humans are NOT, and CANNOT be saved by works.
Salvation is gift, granted by an infinite GOD to a flawed finite being.
There is no “divinity” possible in that finite being, in us.
The mere concept is absurd neo-pagan pride.
I want to make sure that you understand that I am not saying that the one true GOD could not make humans “divine” if HE wanted to.
BUT that is not the way that it is set up in scripture.
Folks such as you get all warm n fuzzy, and try to gloss over the hard parts of being of the Lord’s flock.
Check your pride.
J — we do not become divine by any means. We become adopted Sons of God, but that does not imply divinity in any way. We are called to imitate closely God, to try to be as close to God’s ways as possible, but this does not confer divinity — the orthodox teaching does not imply that in any way.