Theosis: Fusion of Man/Woman and God? (A Patristic, Orthodox Perspective)

Theosis is the purpose of human existence and it is the meaning of human life. The reason why creation and created creatures, especially humans, exist, is so that they become one/d or re-united with the source of their BEing, with their Eternal Ground, with their Creator. The Orthodox Christian way of living, the angelic way, is the way of theosis or deification—of the divine spark in or as the soul being one/d with its origin again, of the image reflected in the mirror, through which we no...