Origen on Theosis
Origen
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Thou shalt resemble Him . . . having made thee even God to his glory.
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Against Celsus, The Ante-Nicene Fathers, page X.30, Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson, eds., Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1994
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More from Origen
. . . from Him there began the union of the divine with the human nature. This was so that the human – by communion with the divine – might rise to be divine. This not only happened in Jesus, but also in all those who not only believe, but enter upon the life that Jesus taught.
Men should escape from being men, and hasten to become gods.