Core tenet of Eastern Orthodoxy
God became human so that humans might become god-like.
Theosis — salvation as transfiguration, not acquittal.
Understanding it — context, not catechism: how this passage is held
Theosis — that God became human so humans might become divine by participation — is Orthodoxy's organizing idea, and it changes the emphasis of everything: salvation is understood as healing and transformation rather than as a legal verdict. Western Christianity's vocabulary of guilt, satisfaction, and acquittal is largely absent, replaced by the language of sickness and cure. Orthodox theologians often say the West asks how a just God can forgive, and the East asks how a mortal can be made alive.
The same ground, other faiths
claims that share this one's ideas
When dharma decays, the divine descends.
Hinduism
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Suffering has a cause, and therefore an end.
Buddhism
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Every soul is already omniscient.
Jainism
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In Jesus, God became human.
Christianity
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Liberation happens while you are alive.
Sikhism
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Krishna and Rama — the descents.
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