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In the definition of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, "grace is favour, the free and undeserved help that God gives us to respond to his call to become children of God, adoptive sons, partakers of the divine nature and of eternal life". [20]
2) Remission of sins is something above the natural order, for it is concerned with the supernatural order of grace. As Peter states (2 Peter 1:4) for by grace “we are made partakers of the divine nature,” as S. Peter says (2 Pet. 1:4). [1] Cornelius Jansen notes that with respect to God, both are equally easy and miraculously divine. In ...
(1 Tim. 6:8. Gal. 6:6.) And again, Let him that is catechized communicate unto him that catechizeth in all good things; that they whose disciples reap spiritual things, should make them partakers of their carnal things, not for the gratification of covetousness, but for the supply of wants." [12]
We are first made partakers of life: and this life with some is light potentially only, not in act; with those, viz. who are not eager to search out the things which appertain to knowledge: with others it is actual light, those who, as the Apostle saith, covet earnestly the best gifts, (1 Cor. 12:31) that is to say, the word of wisdom. .
Believers thereby become "partakers of the divine nature" (cf. 2 Peter 1:4). It is this principle of righteousness imparted to men in regeneration which is ever in conflict with the old Adamic nature .
The Word became flesh to make us "partakers of the divine nature": "For this is why the Word became man, and the Son of God became the Son of man: so that man, by entering into communion with the Word and thus receiving divine sonship, might become a son of God."[St. Irenaeus] "For the Son of God became man so that we might become God."[St ...
For there are who are punished in this life only; as they who among the Corinthians were unworthy partakers of the mysteries; others who are punished only in the life to come, as the rich man in hell; but those here spoken of are to be punished both in this world, and in the world to come, as were the Jews, who suffered horrible things in the ...
The Favorite, by Georgios Iakovidis, 1890.. Adoption, in Christian theology, is the reception of a believer into the family of God.In the Reformed ordo salutis ("order of salvation"), adoption is usually regarded as a step immediately subsequent to justification.