All Of Christianity Hinges On This One Doctrine… 

This is for all the commenters who were wondering if this was blasphemous or where scripture supports this! Edit: 5:27 is supposed to read “anthrotheopany” 1. 2 Peter 1:4: “Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.” 2. John 10:34-35: Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I have said you are “gods”’? If he called them ‘gods,’ to whom the word of God came-and Scripture cannot be set aside.” 3. Psalm 82:6: “I said, ‘You are “gods”; you are all sons of the Most High.’” 4. 1 John 3:2: “Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.” 5. Romans 8:29-30: “For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.” 6. 2 Corinthians 3:18: “And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.” 7. Ephesians 4:13: “Until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.”

You may not agree with everything said, but this is what Christians should be talking about. Not prosperity gospel, not tele evangelists asking tithes, not about popes and other institutions claiming "authority" over others. Whereas, we are to become god-like or Christ ourselves.

Great video. So it sounds like to sum everything up is that Theosis is the process of godliness, where one imitates Christ, not in essence, but in will & piety, where God grants divine grace through faith (which is defined as living a faithful sacramental life, where one continually denies himself & natural desires, generally done by fasting & penance, and participants in the sacraments, generally baptism & Holy Communion).

I am proud to be Catholic! 🇻🇦✝️ I absolutely love talking about Theosis and the Beatific vision!!

We won’t be God in the sense that you all think, we won’t be equal to God in power and in knowledge but I think we will be with Jesus and can pray for our brothers and sisters there. We will be “married” to God in a way. That’s why Jesus calls us His bride.

This is the Way that Christ talks about. The world is collapsing into a pre-hellish state because of man’s pursuit to become God through human fallen means, building a technological Tower of Babel that spires higher and higher into the soaring sky. The apple of God’s eye, that is us, in Christ, are able to become gods by grace. Rather than taking painkillers, God’s grace strengthens us to tolerate any pain and suffering that He sends our way, instead of creating a virtual reality through technology and screens, we grow closer and closer to reality, truth beyond the 2/3/ or 4D. We try to become gods with a small g through limited concepts that we perceive to be supreme, but in actuality these things are lacking what we truly need, that’s Christ, through the sacraments, through the One, Holy, Apostolic Church of Eastern Orthodoxy. God bless our triumphant, glorified Orthodox Christians, and us, the Church Militant, still warring on earth! Lord have mercy on us all!

I hope one day you come to Holy Orthodoxy, you'd love it, you're certainly inspired by it! ☦

What loving Father would not want his children to grow up to become like himself? Many of us settle with the idea that Christ saved us and don’t consider what exactly that allows us to become. The atonement was so much more than freeing us from hell, it was about giving us the ability to literally become like Christ and our Heavenly Father

Edits: @ 5:37 it is supposed to read, “anthro-theophany”

In the context of Christian mysticism, absolutely theosis (or divinization in the Western churches) is of paramount importance. Many Christians definitely don't see it that way, however. Then again, mysticism has always been part of the inner dimension of Christianity (and religion in general), and that's something the vast majority of Christians frankly are ignorant of or simply don't concern themselves with. Which is fine, I feel-I see no reason to insist upon a person viewing their relationship to God in a specific way. You don't have to be a mystic to find meaning in your faith.

Finally someone who is not afraid of theosis.

Fantastic video

Amazing video, can you do a video on the differences and similarities of Catholicism and Orthodoxy?

I can imagine the Kingdom of heaven, I’ll be tending to pure beer, drinking with my pawpaw and papa and seeing the perfection of Christ. Standing with them sharing in the perfect state of the wholesomeness of Gods plan the the second person of the trinity.

Yo, love the Kirby music 👍

Great video I’m definitely subscribing

To be clear, we Christians do not believe that we can truly become God. God is perfect and uncreated. We can only become "lowercase g" gods. This is using the word "god" in an archaic sense of a powerful spiritual being. We may become gods only by trying to be like God through theosis.

“Christians” disagreeing is such a tell to how far our faith has fallen.

That was really good! Are you inspired in part by Jonathan’s Pageau symbolic work perspective by any chance? Reminds me a lot of what he talks about.

Salvation must be understood in terms of union with Christ, it is abundantly clear through all of St. Paul. And as St Thomas draws on sonship is divinization. See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called sons of God!

As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Deification/Theosis is something I’ve been taught since I was very young, though we call it Exaltation. In John chapter 10 verse 34 Christ in response to Pharisees accusing him of blasphemy he states “Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? Deification is such a beautiful doctrine and helps strengthen my faith in Jesus Christ and his atonement.

Theosis means, to become Gods by grace through union with God. Exactly like Saint Efrai of Arizona said, exactly like steel and fire that they are not the same but inside the forge they become one and you cannot separate where is the fire and where is the steel, as if they became one, this is exactly what will happen to the Furure Kingdom, mankind and God will unite in perfect union and will become one. The only ones who are in this state of being is The Lord Himself by Nature and Hi8s Mother by Grace, we only gain a small part of this experience with the Holy Communion.

Be perfect as the Father in Heaven is perfect

Correct. What is gravely overlooked, is that 'Son of Man', is not exclusively Jesus Christ, but the model in which humanity can reconciled to divinity. God became incarnate as Jesus Christ to give revelation of what that model is.

Thank you. Wow

Commenting before finishing video, but I think it's important to specify theosis it to draw closer to divinity through communion with God. The reason is I had a lot of friend take the gonstic bait and self edification.

"Divinity became man, so that men may become divine"* I don't get why most people mess up this quote from Athanasius. That considered, great video bro.

Very well done on this video, God bless 🙏

Christ is the truth and the way! He healed me many times and saved my grandpa! I was a big believer in the "Universe" but he showed me.. Now I know. This 'man' Jesus was an ethical genius at a time we're nobody was teaching such pure words. He became such a relevant person that even we today are speaking about him because he is in fact God in human form. No human could have done such an impact around the globe and even making the crucifixion cross from the Romans, which was a symbol of fear and death into a symbol of hope and his word. No human could have forgiven those people who killed him even though he lived a perfect life.. The feeling of anger and vengeance would overcome anybody, especially at that time. But he said: "Forgive them father" Did you know that within our DNA we have a certain structure that repeats.. That holds the DNA together.. This structure only appears after 10 nucleic acids have been laid down.. Then every 5, then every 6 and then every 5 again. So the repeating numbers are 10,5,6,5 and they never ever change in anybody. The name for God YHWH has the same numerical value. Yud - 10 Hei - 5 Vav - 6 Hei - 5 Every artist signs his creation. You take the Hebrew name of God and place it on its side you get an image of a human being. God is beyond amazing!

More/any scripture would've been nice 😉 Just a mention of which passages the fathers had in mind would help a lot.

God didn’t become man so man could become God. God became man so man could BE with God

I love Catholic theology set to Kirby music. Subbed lol.

The beginning premise is incorrect.

2Ch 7:14 - Then if *my people* who are called by *my name* will *humble themselves* and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and restore their land. Mat 23:12 - But those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who *humble themselves* will be exalted. Psa 8:1-9 - [[To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of David.]] O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens. Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; *What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?* *For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.* *Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:* *All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;* *The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.* O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! Gen 1:1-31 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day. And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good. And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the third day. And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day. And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good. And *God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.* *So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him;* male and female created he them. And *God blessed them,* and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and *have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.* And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so. And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day. Gen 24:11 And he made his camels to *kneel down* without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out to draw water. "Blessed, to kneel down"- barak www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/h1288/kjv/wlc/0-1/ 2Ch 33:12 - And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and *humbled himself* greatly before the God of his fathers, Phl 2:2 - Fulfil ye *my joy,* that ye *be likeminded,* having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. Phl 2:5 - Let *this mind* be in you, *which was also in Christ Jesus:* Phl 2:6 - Who, being in the *form of God,* thought it *not robbery to be equal with God:* Phl 2:8 - And being found in fashion as a man, he *humbled himself,* and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Bless you, brothers and sisters in Christ.

Christianity is not about Man becoming God. It is about Man repenting from trying to be God and, instead, giving all glory to the true God Himself. God became Man as Jesus by His Blessed Virgin Mother Mary in order for Him to save us from our own self-deification. He died our death so He could raise us again to eternal life in Him.

God became a man to reveal God to men. To allow Himself to be sinned against by men to reveal the nature of men. To forgive those who recognize their sins against God and who desire to be changed to love God and others, asking to be in the Kingdom of God where this is the manner citizens relate to others. Once confessing their need and desire Christ gives these believing confessors the right to be citizens in His Kingdom.

Roman Catholics are misunderstanding Matthew 16:18. The confession that "Jesus is the Christ the Son of God" is the only foundational truth that Christ builds His church on.

.as a born again evangelical, i thought our job was to go to heaven and sing eternal praises in order to boost the self esteem of God. Or, burning in hell if you don't. Maybe there's something to this Orthodoxy stuff.

When man elevates himself higher than God.

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I found this video when you had 777 followers 🤯

Why would the second person of the God-head need to be glorified? Isn't he already the glory of God - spoke on as the "kavod", the physical manifestation of God's glory - in the Hebrew Bible?

yes interesting and insightful

So how do you guys believe humanity is saved cause I ve heard some say it is through theosis or communion with God. But wouldn't that be a denial of what christ did for us on the cross by taking away the sins of the world. We are told that faith in the son is what saves by paul, jesus and every one of Jesus's followers. The father's will is written to be for us to believe in the son and exercise faith in him witch wit ll produce good works, but as said in isaiah "our works are but filthy rags".

The intro quote “God became man, so that man might become God” Is particularly not a Christian teaching. Some would even call it heresy

Seek Orthodoxy.

If I never had the Bible or knew our fathers words I think I would still very well come across him. I learned how to astral project and lucid dream at a very young age as is anyone ability to do so people just can’t out of sheer laziness or ignorance. Being in the astral world once or twice is cool but eventually you’ll bring something back and that room you used to sleep in will no longer be usable. You cannot begin to unravel the confines of this world without peering into our fathers hand. For those of you speaking about doctrine this doctrine that you are not a Christian nor do you understand what Christianity is. This is a relationship a link to a religion with set codes and celebrations. The codes and celebrations are indeed there for reference and history sake but a man in the wilderness will be just fine if he were to call upon Yah for aid. I know vengeance isn’t mine to be had but sometimes I wish I was able to dish it out to you fools.

John 1:4 God's Word is the Inner Child. John 14:10 Not about Jesus. About God. John 14:26 Learn from God yourself. Col. 3:9-11 God's Kingdom. John 6:45 God's Goal

You miss the whole point...Eve knew that in order to bring about the family of man...she must eat the forbidden fruit 🙏🌹🎶🎵... it's all a part of the plan of salvation, amen ⁉️ and who has suffered more then women 💖

Peter would have mentioned this concept if it were the case. “Fellow Israelites, listen to this: Jesus of Nazareth was a man accredited by God to you by miracles, wonders and signs, which God did among you through him, as you yourselves know. 23 This man was handed over to you by God’s deliberate plan and foreknowledge; and you, with the help of wicked men, put him to death by nailing him to the cross. 24 But God raised him from the dead, freeing him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for death to keep its hold on him." Acts 2 God working through Jesus wouldn't make Jesus God.

Lol This literally sounds like the plot of Mega Man X with God as Dr. Light and us as X. Peeped the Kirby music btw

There are a dozen things said in this video that are WRONG...the Kingdom of Heaven is not a Church.

amen. also amen because you said man rather than 'humans' or 'people'.

Theosis as a doctrine does not now, and never has meant "Divinisation" of man. Man becoming "Divine" is not Christian doctrine, it is called APOTHEOSIS and not THEOSIS. Theosis according to the Eastern Orthodox Church means becoming closer to and resembling/reflecting God, without becoming God.

People pull stuff by the straps of their boots all the time i dont believe everything can be solved by one solution in my life being a Christian requires tons of scafices i dont see as important to me and therefore idnever maje this choice

It requires some serious mental gymnastics to interpret the garden of Eden story this way. Especially when God gives his reasons for expelling the humans. OT God doesn't seem like the guy who wants humans to attain divinity. This is further supported by the Tower of Babel story.

why is the likes to views ratio so off...

He punished all the kids of Adam and Eve for their mistakes or is it some sort of metaphor that all people are responsible for? If I punished all decentance of nazi's would I be considered good? Why is god taking on mankinds sin such a good thing if there are no stakes for him? Unless he is currently suffering in hell for all eternity. If I could stop all humanity from being tortured forever by only getting tortured in 1 life and then going to heaven I would do it too. So whats the big deal, I don't understand.

Is grace created or uncreated

Did God not know before he even created us that we would “fall into sin”? Did he not have an option to make us better?

If the Trinitarian position is wrong then it is wrong because of scriptural misinterpretation. And therefore those who revere and imitate Christ but interpret the scriptures as lacking sufficient evidence for the trinitarian position are more accurately claiming to be Christian. And all these Philosophers are merely the philosophers which Paul warned about. And probably influenced by Gnosticism or ancient paganism.

I dont wanta be God i want to be with God

I couldn't care less about my morality... Im gonna eventually die... its called being mortal... im perfectly fine with that... Religion has nothing to do with that

Ancient myths have little in common with reality.

This idea was commonplace in pre monotheistic culture. Look at Empedocles for example, Antiochus Epiphanes, the Roman emperors etc. To say nothing of the East. Christianity was a step backward in this respect. No permission is needed to be what one naturally is.

I am in shock, this is the first Catholic associated video that dealt with Jesus & Only Jesus in the framework of Salvation. Clearly not all Catholics venerate Mary. Thank you

it is not correct to say that the incarnation is his glorification imo. Although it might be part of it. The resurrection seems to be more reasonable. Now the Son of Man is glorified and God is glorified in him. If God is glorified in him, God will glorify the Son in himself, and will glorify him at once. John 13:31 now i am not an expert so take this with a grain of salt

Jesus was created? Explain this logic to me because that seems antithetical to Biblical Christianity

Actually the original sin is free will; God created us as being unique from himself in order to truly be alive but this means we have the power to go against the will of the universe because will us a radical that is radical But god deams it worth it even though it causes us to cause destruction and be punished for it because at the end of the day all things come from god ergo its his own fault and should die in our place for our sins

we are probably a little of both

Scotus? More like The Goatus

this isn’t very accurate

Your name looks like a play on “ask a ton,” so I’m here to ask you if that’s the case.

Big win for the Mormons.

Christianity cannot be contained. You shall not lie.

Gematria444:360=1.23*MONAD

Sounds mormon.

😅

Theosis sounds awful to be honest.

Man made fantasy

We all die.... Get over it

the doctrine of putting your fingers in your ears and going LALALLALAALLALALALAA when somebody provides evidence that might come into conflict with dogma? That's the doctrine I see put into practice most often anyway

Only in the Orthodox Church, the True Original Church of Christ from 2000 years ago, can Theosis be found. I remind you that the term Theosis was conceived by the Holy Fathers of the Orthodox Church, and explained by them, as they are the ones who inherited the Apostles' Holy Spirit and teachings. Salvation outside the Orthodox Church is impossible.

Rank heresy. You are going to hell

Yeshua was black