Being partakers of the divine nature is not the same as being divine nature. We can partner with it. Satan and Adam & Eve wanted to be like God. It didn’t work out. Humility toward God, which is total surrender to Him, connects us to God, but also keeps us in our place.
That would be one version of the Ladder of Divine Ascent, from St. Catherine's monastery in Egypt, based on a treatise written there by St. John Climacus in 600 AD.
Being partakers of the divine nature is not the same as being divine nature. We can partner with it. Satan and Adam & Eve wanted to be like God. It didn’t work out. Humility toward God, which is total surrender to Him, connects us to God, but also keeps us in our place.
Thanks for this reflection. What is the icon at the end?
That would be one version of the Ladder of Divine Ascent, from St. Catherine's monastery in Egypt, based on a treatise written there by St. John Climacus in 600 AD.
Cool, thank you!