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The Christian movement was referred to as 'The Way' (της οδου) based upon the well known statement by Jesus: "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me."

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They were called The Way, and the new way because they lived differently. They lived differently because of their encounter with the Lord Jesus. They thought differently. They loved differently. They approach every aspect of their life differently.

In Christology, the Logos (Greek: Λόγος) is a name or title of Jesus Christ

As the Logos, Jesus Christ is God in self-revelation (Light) and redemption (Life)

Christianity must always remember that it is the religion of the "Logos."

...we Christians must be very careful to remain faithful to this fundamental line: to live a faith that comes from the "Logos," from creative reason...

Saint Augustine considered the Incarnation of the Logos as necessary

"[God's purpose is, in] the fullness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens, and the things upon the earth..." (Ephesians 1:10, RV)

In the recapitulation view of the atonement, Christ is seen as the new Adam who succeeds where Adam failed. Christ undoes the wrong that Adam did and, because of his union with humanity, leads humankind on to eternal life

Irenaeus is considered to be the first to clearly express a recapitulation view of the atonement

For Irenaeus, the ultimate goal of Christ's work of solidarity with humankind is to make humankind divine. Of Jesus he says, he 'became what we are, that He might bring us to be even what He is Himself'.

>so that what we had lost in Adam—namely, to be according to the image and likeness of God—that we might recover in Christ Jesus

In Christian theology, divinization (deification, making divine, or theosis) is the transforming effect of divine grace, the spirit of God, or the atonement of Christ. It literally means to become divine, or to become god

There were many different references to divinization in the writings of the Church Fathers.

In the second century, Irenaeus, bishop of Lyons said that God had "become what we are, that He might bring us to be even what He is Himself."

He added:

Do we cast blame on him [God] because we were not made gods from the beginning, but were at first created merely as men, and then later as gods? Although God has adopted this course out of his pure benevolence, that no one may charge him with discrimination or stinginess, he declares, "I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are sons of the Most High." ... For it was necessary at first that nature be exhibited, then after that what was mortal would be conquered and swallowed up in immortality.

Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria, stated his belief in literal deification: "The Word was made flesh in order that we might be made gods. ... Just as the Lord, putting on the body, became a man, so also we men are both deified through his flesh, and henceforth inherit everlasting life." Athanasius also observed: "For the Son of God became man so that we might become God."

Justin Martyr insisted that in the beginning men "were made like God, free from suffering and death," and that they are thus "deemed worthy of becoming gods and of having power to become sons of the highest."

What is with you people and "we is God and shieet"?
You're not Gods. You're mortal. The world is suffering, bleeding and you spew some bile about some supposed divinity of us sinner creatures.

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I can't believe you leafs haven't caught on to my work yet. You literally talk about this stuff all day.

I literally wrote a series (The Elemental Series) involving Christianity & Greeks, logos & the Way.

One of few madly talented writers who is 'one of yours' you neglect. That's just fucking stupid.

Thanks for exemplifying the plight of the cretin, unable to perceive the obvious when it stares them in the face; if you want people who are actually talented, you need to support them.

If anything I am your unrecognized patron saint and will die due to your sins, figuratively and literally.

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In other words, I am Jesus.
Now praise me.

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teach me how to be a pretentious author

Augustine of Hippo said: "But he himself that justifies also deifies, for by justifying he makes sons of God. 'For he has given them power to become the sons of God' [referring to John 1:12]. If then we have been made sons of god, we have also been made gods."

Maximus the Confessor wrote:

A sure warrant for looking forward with hope to deification of human nature is provided by the Incarnation of God, which makes man God to the same degree as God Himself became man ... . Let us become the image of the one whole God, bearing nothing earthly in ourselves, so that we may consort with God and become gods, receiving from God our existence as gods. For it is clear that He Who became man without sin (cf. Heb. 4:15) will divinize human nature without changing it into the Divine Nature, and will raise it up for His Own sake to the same degree as He lowered Himself for man's sake. This is what St. Paul teaches mystically when he says, 'that in the ages to come he might display the overflowing richness of His grace' (Eph. 2:7)