THEOSIS - The True Purpose of the Human Life 

“What Christ is imparting to us is the healing of our human will.” 😢

*Title: THEOSIS - The True Purpose of the Human Life* September 25th, 2023 - The day this video was uploaded to RU-vid. Speakers of This Video Discussion ☦Hieromonk Felipe Balingit ☦Father Peter Heers 0:00 Title Sequence. 0:30 Thanks to Father Filipp for having this conversation with Fr. Peter Heers. 1:03 This is Going to Be a Talk On Theosis *The Fall of Man* 💀 2:02 The Fall of Man from The Garden, Man is Created In The Image and Likeness of God In The Fall, Man Lost The Likeness of God. ☦ 3:45 Thank God for preserving The Orthodox Fathers of this age. 7:30 On Theosis. Can Theosis be reached in this life? 11:17 Unceasing Prayer and The 1 Path To Salvation. 13:08 Theosis - Becoming, By Grace, Like God. Theosis: The Transformation of The Whole Person, By Grace. ☦⛪ 14:37 Theosis is Not possible outside The Orthodox Church. 15:12 A Christ-Centered Life. A Full-Time Life, not part time. 20:03 The Role of The Church is to be accessible to Sincere, Christ-Seeking people. 21:29 A Personal Struggle along with God's Grace, God's Gifts. - Get rid of the garbage + God stands at the door and knocks. 22:43 Open the Door every day. Christ heals impaired human will. Part of Theosis is The Healing of The Human Will. - People mistakenly think God turns Men into Slaves. This is not the case. It is to help man become Like Christ in Being, by Grace. + Becoming Fully Human, God-Man By Grace, Like Christ. 25:10 We were made for Theosis. Synergy. ☦On Temptation 26:03 Temptation Does Not come from God, but God allows it. 27:10 The Misunderstandings of mankind. ☦ 28:12 + Faith + Trust + Healing + Synergy + Merciful + As Christ, Like Christ. 29:49 30:15 Going To Confession, exposing all of our sicknesses, not holding back. ☦Roadblock to Theosis 31:33 Lack of Will and Laziness. 33:55 "Lord, I deserve this, but please, help me." 35:23 Falling into Delusion. ☦ *The Hierarchy of Things* 36:26 What do you put at the top of your hierarchy/priorities? 38:53 Glory To Thee O God. 39:29 If you are disturbed by Worldly sin and corruption, Pray to God about this. 40:15 "The World is Suffering because we have taken Christ out of The Center." 41:53 Baptism is very important. Do not argue with The Saints. They are higher in The Spiritual Life than you. ☦The Jesus Prayer; the prayer rope, Elder Ephraim of Arizona. 43:11 The Jesus Prayer. 44:02 The Jesus Prayer: Purification & Illumination simultaneously, at the exact same time. + Calling to Christ to bring his presence, to illumine us. + Bringing Christ into the heart. ☦ The Cross 45:42 People seek to take away pain. What they do not understand, The Joy includes The Cross. 47:35 The problem of egotism. 48:54 The Beatitudes. ☦ 51:23, 57:38 Denial of Uncreated Energies is unorthodox. 52:22 Intellectual, Academic Theologians ignore Theosis. 53:03 Immerse Yourself With The Gospel. 55:04 Know God, Know Yourself 58:35 The Person of Christ. 1 Person, 2 Natures, 2 Wills. 59:50 Doctors talk about sickness, that's what doctors do. 1:01:23 Dogma is there to guarantee the healing is correct. ☦ 1:02:09 Repentance includes Christ, Repentance is a reorientation of a person towards Christ. 1:09:23 The Icons point us to Christ. + A Life Directed, Centered in, Christ. ☦ 1:10:30 Mystagouge. + The Likeness of Christ is only possible in The Orthodox Church. 1:11:24 Expert Theologians. 1:13:00 No blessing to debate from Fr. Filipp. 1:14:20 "Why do we still commit sin, Father?" please, don't think you are above The Church. ☦The Great Gifts of Living a Spiritual Life. 1:17:03 Prophetic Clairvoyance, Knowledge of The Heart of others, these are lower-end gifts. 1:18:42 It is not for The Saint, it is for The Help and Love of Neighbor. - How could a Saint maintain Spiritual Gifts and not become proud? + The Fruit of Theosis, For The Sake of Love, For Salvation of The Whole Body. + Good For Others Around Him. + Greater Increase In Love + Greater Increase of Communion. 1:21:00 Theosis is Within The Orthodox Church. 1:21:25 Love Without Willingness To Sacrifice is Not Sacrificial Love. 1:22:13 Love means He could not remain alone, it was an extension of His very being that He created Man. Because we are Loved We are moved to Love 1:23:10 You give bread, God gives His Body and Blood. Giving and Getting Giving and Getting 1:23:33 Very Beautiful. Centered On The Person of Christ 1:24:20 Glory To God ☦

I'm not even finished listening! And find this uplifting! Thank you!!! Simply...simplistic. So basic. ☦️

Greetings to all my Orthodox Brothers 🇬🇷☦️

Glory to God. Thank you Fr. Peter and Fr. Felippe for edifying us.

Glory to Jesus Christ ☦️ May we all have your blessings Father Peter ☦️ May we all be made worthy to experience the final Theosis after our purification journey on the narrow path of the Church on Earth.

We need more content with Fr Felipe! There’s not much out there

Fr Peter, The content of your videos are being so helpful for me and I feel that is touching my husband’s heart too. I personally being trying to find Christ in my life, calling myself a Christian and yet not knowing anything about his traditional Church… heard about different doctrines and complete different philosophies Gnosticism, Buddhism, metaphysics while I was a curious Mormon… (while I was trying to find my spiritual path) Thank you! for putting this together and for the joy to hear Fr. Filipp to come in the help of our empty and weak soul. Thank you for uplifting me and reminding me how wrong I was❤ ☦️

Jesus is my Lord ☦️❤️‍🔥

Glory to God for all things!! Thank you dear Fr Peter and Fr Fillip!!!

1:23:04 And the image of love is the CROSS ☦️❤️

I live an hour away from a true Orthodox Church and driving is a problem for me now. I wish I were closer. This is a great talk, transformative.

Thank you Fathers.♥️☦🇬🇷🇨🇦

Thank you, dear Fathers.

Amen, The TRUE Purpose.

Fantastic dialogue

Such a blessing to listen to this, a great encouragment!

The title in the thumbnail hooked me. Very good choice. I’m hoping, for my investigation into Orthodoxy, this episode lives up to it.

Thank you

Excellent! Just starting to listen. Thank you!

I'm Catholic but I got a lot from this. Thank you Frs. A lot to think about and let it change my mind and my actions. May we be one (John 17:20-21)

42:43 and on ☦️❤️ Purification and ilumination simultaneously in prayer

Everyone is trying to become like God anyway. There is just one difference. Are you doing this under God's will, guidance and protection.. or are you doing it by yourself?

YESSSSSSSSS!!!!!

Great talk Father's.

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on us and our world ☦ 🙏 🌍 🙏☦

“No theosis outside the Orthodox Church.” How could anything outside the church even exist if there is no participation in the divine energies outside the church?!?

Great video!😃✨

Really great ❤

Excellent

YESSSSSSSSSSSS🎉🎉🎉🎉

As one who wants to come into the Orthodox faith and out of Reformed protestantism, I will add a comment as someone who has had a life time of protestantism. It was always told to me that salvation is a single event. It is a change of heart, a mystical rebirth of one who is spiritually dead. Once we are saved, we are saved. What protestants refer to as sanctification is something else that comes about by obeying the teachings of Christ and the scriptures. Nothing mystical happens. We are simply more Christ-like and we do Christ-like things because we ARE saved. Doing good works is evidence of salvation and not a progression towards salvation. I was also taught (nothing about Eastern Orthodoxy) but that the alternative is Rome where good works are a way of earning salvation. The notion that theosis is a progession and not some sort of "earning" is hard to get a western mind around. I'm striving, and I'm more able to say more about what Theosis is not rather than what it is. Holy Baptism in the Orthodox church unites me to Christ's body, but salvation continues to develop and mature and grow as a participate in the church, its teachings, and its mysteries in all areas of my life . . . but I'm not earning/paying-for salvation. It is my understanding from Christ's sermon on the mount that good works unaccompanied by a devoted heart wanting to please God are nothing more than empty works. I hope I'm on the right track in my understanding. But, the key difference to me in the disconnect between protestant salvation and orthodox theosis is what I started with. Protestant salvation is a single event EVIDENCED by continuing in good works and not developed by good works.

I learn a lot of Orthodox Church here

God must be able to work with those outside of official Orthodox communion, because so many people cannot participate in an Orthodox church. You can't believe God is love and exclude all outside Orthodox communion from relationship with Christ, or theosis as God wills.I appreciate the Truth of the church, but God knows all, and knows who love Him. There's no option for me to be in communion, but I am studying Orthodox teachings, and Christ knows that I want the Truth.

Love this thank you for this content , i have always seen jesus christ path as a spirtual steps , bethlehem means a body of bread and in arabic is a body of flesh ( so we are born in a body of flesh ) and nazareth means to overcome ( overcome our own ego ) jesus overcame the world (our inner world ) and jerusalem is the perfect light ( enlightenment ) , jesus tought us and showed us the path , he is the path himself , we can see the whole bible on the cross , when we do gods will , we become cruscified and we can love selflessly , we also become detached from the material world immediatly

I have a hard time separating Orthodox Christian theosis from the gnostic concept of theosis in a practical sense. Trying to figure that one out.

Father, you say without frequent communion we will not make progress. Will those of us who's mission only comes once a month be hindered?

My only compliant is sound quality for visiting Father, having a hard time hearing his points

We already are like Christ in the hidden person of the heart.

Father, make sure you guys are staying away from wifi/phones/bluetooth and have them on airplane mode or use ethernet cables when possible!! EM radiation is damaging! God bless

I am a protestant believer. I listen to a lot of orthodox teachings, and I truly resonate with most of them. I love Jesus I am in relationship with him. He is my savior. He is my Lord. And I do believe that in taking communion It is far more than a symbol, but it is in some mystical way I cannot comprehend it is the body and the blood of Jesus. I say all that to say that a “ problem” that I have with orthodoxy is that I a believer and follower of Christ is actually considered not part of the body of Christ but outside the church because I am at Protestant. Yet, I continue to listen to many orthodox teachers setting aside that belief that I am not a true Christian, or even on the path to salvation.

What books and readings did he suggest to read? The captions were off

As far as I understand theosis; as the true purpose of human life. (I am an Anglican/Anglo-Catholic). In terms my missional work in my church, how do I put this across in simple enough terms that folk will understand? Also can I clarify my own understanding? In short, (going off St. Augustine.) Where we are: We are born into original sin - We can't deny it, because we see it all around us. The objective: To become like Jesus, in complete unity to be co-heirs with Christ. Sinless. How do we get there: Faith, the sacramentum, prayer, self-control, good works. Am I right in thinking about these are three important points that can aid our understanding? The sacraments: comes from Tertullian from the Latin word sacramentum. Which was the oath of allegience a new recruit swore upon joining the Roman Army - Tertullian saw the "sacramentum" as a change to a new way life. Hence the analogy. Christianity is not a religion but a way of life. We don't worship a big beardy chap in the sky armed with thunderbolts (Zeus), rather we seek to become like Christ. Then there is the definition of worship, which can get confused in most protestant denominations. As far as I am aware, it is the partaking of sacraments that is the actual worship, whilst hymns and songs are praise and thanksgiving. Therefore the it is partaking of the sacramentum, a change to the spiritual life to become more and more like Christ, which is written into the liturgy; even the Book of Common Prayer from the Church of England, we don't see the wood for the trees. For a point of Martin Luther, and faith without works. His argument was that if you are Christian then good works should naturally follow. That doesn't take into account human nature. For me, Lutheranism only has the potential of working if you have theosis as a datum. If you partake of the sacramentum, the spiritual life, to be like Christ - then yes Good works will naturally follow.

I was raised Mormon. They believe God is actually a deified man, and that man can progress to the same essence as God this is obviously completely heretical. I have been a protestant for most of my Christian life. Evangelicals are so terrified to fall into the little gods heresy, that I think they are missing a huge aspect. If you read John 10 and 82, you come to the inescapable conclusion, that yes, what God has in mind for us is some type of nature that is more Godlike than our current human nature. However, not the same essence as God. Thank you for orthodox denominations having held onto this truth that was Apparently commonly understood among all early church fathers. The modern church, especially evangelicalism, is missing a lot.

Appreciate what your saying about the Jesus prayer. I was told say it at most 10x/day while standing or prostrating. How am I supposed to cultivate unceasing prayer like that? I don’t know, it’s very confusing

Hello, how do I become a member

Theosis is the core of all true religions and metsphysical schools. The real gnostics knew it all along.

Each day should be devoted to miracles. The purpose of time is to enable you to learn how to use time constructively. It is thus a teaching device and a means to an end. Time will cease when it is no longer useful in facilitating learning. Miracles make minds one in God. They depend on cooperation, because the Sonship is the sum of all that God created. Miracles therefore reflect the laws of eternity, not of time. Miracles reawaken the awareness that the spirit, not the body, is the altar of truth. This is the recognition that leads to the healing power of the miracle. Miracles are part of an interlocking chain of forgiveness which, when completed, is the Atonement. Atonement works all the time and in all the dimensions of time. The Holy Spirit is the highest communication medium. Miracles do not involve this type of communication, because they are _temporary_ communication devices. When you return to your original form of communication with God by direct revelation, the need for miracles is over. A Course In Miracles (Author: Jesus Christ)

Does anyone have any book or video recommendations for someone who knows nothing about it? I was raised in a kooky non denominational evangelical church which I rejected. I'd like to about the actual roots of Christianity. Any suggestions welcome and thanks

Common terms for Christian Perfection/Theosis found in both patristic and early methodist sources: Happy in God The kingdom within Filled with the Spirit Sealed with the Spirit Witness of the Spirit (Assurance) Clothed with power from on high The Promise of the Father The Anointing The Spirit of Adoption Perfect Love Spiritual Canaan The Mind of Christ The Comfort of the Spirit God's Rest Warm in the Spirit Baptism of the Spirit Entire Sanctification The Second Blessing Overshadowing of the Spirit Quickening of the Spirit Animated by the Spirit Intoxicated with the Spirit Liberty of the Spirit The Living Water (Live Agua) Wells bubbling over (overflowing) from innermost being Illumination Enlightenment etc.

Paul the Saul of Rehoboam of Sammael was not an Apostle.

I am sorry to say this, because I desperately want to hear and understand this content, but between the accents , and the very poor miking- sound quality, I cannot understand much of what’s being said. I am listening on a new iPhone and a set of Air Pods. I feel like I should be able to receive this transmission properly but no.

If “We lost the likeness and the image was darkened” what is the meaning of the likeness passed from Adam to Noah in Genesis 5?

If Theosis is not possible outside of Orthodoxy, how is Luke 9:50 explained? Thanks in advance for the explanation.

"Theosis is not fully achieved in this life..." I was under the impression that the Saints had achieved Theosis. I guess that they achieved a facet of Theosis based on the assertion above? That in and of itself warrants a new question of "is Theosis a multifaceted objective"?

Anybody reading this I'm so in darkness please help pray I don't know what to do I'm bipolar I got to head injury I'm using drugs

What does father filipe mean when he says "1 person, 2 natures, 2 wills". Doesn't Orthodoxy believe that Christ has 2 natures but 1 will ?

Christ is the preeminence before all else. A sin of idolatry is placing "your stuff" in place of Christ.

Full sanctification (theosis) is the grand depositum which God has lodged with the people called Methodists; and for the sake of propagating this chiefly He appeared to have raised us up. - Wesley This doctrine was for John Wesley the central emphasis of the Methodist movement. He believed Methodism existed because God had given them the calling to spread the teaching of full sanctification (theosis). All Methodists in that day after a conscious conversion began to seek for the removal of the least and last remains of the carnal mind. This reveals the secret of the peculiar power which characterized their ministry. They did not backslide because they set their faces immediately after their conversion toward the Canaan of Perfect Love. This was the goal to which they all aspired.

So when Jesus said I am the way the truth and the life,nobody comes to the father except through me,he was talking about the church?. What about That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life? What about John 3:16? Did God give his only begotten church or his only begotten son? What his church on the cross or his son? Did the church die for your sins or did Christ? Was christ betrayed by judas or was the church? Was the thief on the cross saved by christ or by the church??? You have NO right to tell the Christian world that they have no salvation outside of the church... if I baptize a man on his death he'd and he confesses with his mouth that that christ is his Savior and asks for forgiveness and then dies...are you telling us all that he would go to hell because he wasn't orthodox???

What is a church , is it the house of God? Is it a building with holy relics? Is a church a priest and a congregation who practice the holy sacraments? What is a church, perhaps a place where God abides in us? Maybe all of the above . Christ used to read scripture in the Synagogues and turned over the money lenders tables because he said that it's the house of God.The Bible does not mention that Jesus entered the holy of holies. The Pharisees were the problem. The synagogues were holy places but not their priests. Perhaps our churches are holy but are our priests? That's not the point , the point is that wherever Jesus visited he allowed miracles to happen.Most or all of Christ's miracles were gone outside a synagogue. Christ's church had very little to do with the holy of holies and more to do saving sinners. I believe that our duty as Christians is firstly to do as Christ did and forgive outside the church, help outside the church and once you have gone good deeds then attend church. Do you think fasting is so important then become a vegan, it simply won't save you. Do you think church is so important then fast pray and go to church but be aware of that God will not approve unless you have forgiven or helped your fellow man. I do agree Church is the house of God but you are the house of the Holy Spirit. Unfortunately priests have emphasised that you cannot take communion unless you have fasted , and a non orthodox person cannot take orthodox communion. Ok perhaps I have confused you. The simple truth is that when you live in Christ the whole world is your church because the Holy Spirit abides in you and you should worship and partake in the Holy sacraments.

KYRIE XPISTE O THEOS, ELEISON MAS!!

According to the Orthodox theology of theosis, man is no more united to God than he is the sun - he simply participates in the energies of both. This is pseudo (energetic) not real (ontological) union with God.

The early Methodist teaching on perfection also called Entire Sanctification, the Second Blessing, perfect love, and other terms is the same as the Eastern teaching on perfection, also called by various terms such as theosis, apatheia, dispassion etc. Wesley said: where Christian perfection is not strongly and explicitly preached there is seldom any remarkable blessing from God and consequently little addition to the Methodist Society and little life in the members of it. Till you press the believers to expect full salvation you must not look for any revival. Wesleyan Christian Perfection is a domesticated (brought down to the common believer) and democratized (available to the the common believer) version of the more ancient doctrine of theosis. There are many written testimonies of early methodists who experienced theosis or entire sanctification as one of the more common ways that it was called, and the parallels with early Christian literature such as the desert fathers, pseudo-Macarius, Gregory Nyssa etc. are striking. The first tract Wesley wrote on Christian Perfection is called: The Character of a Methodist. It is based on Clement of Alexandria's description of the perfect Christian (the true Gnostic) in book 7 of Stromateis.

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it is on Julian calendar needs to be I guess , amen !