If the chief end of man is to rest in God, what profit will it be for God to become man if our deification is not applied, but remains in principle? If grace can be resisted (in whatever mode), the effects of the Cross may possibly remain fruitless, and any incarnation would be in vain. After all, you would end up with God as man, and man as a beast...
In itself, the gracious mercy of God in descending the womb of the Theotokos in order to die is not enough.
divine generosity.
ReplyDeleteGod becomes man, but man remains alienated from God if he does not assent to the grace given in the Incarnation. The incarnation on its own profits nothing if it is not applied to men's souls. Therefore it can not be the summit of creation, God joining Himself hypostatically to man, while man remains in his state of unrepented sin.
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