Christianity is Theanthropy

"'The Jews [said]...for blasphemy...we stone thee..., and because, thou, being a man, makest thyself God'.  Jesus answered them, 'Is it not written in your Law, 'I said you are gods'?" Jn. 10:34

Christ was killed for claiming to be God, because he called God His Father, and like begets like.  If your father is God then you are God!  Their logic was sound.  Now here is the clincher.  Christ divinizes us.  He makes us sons of God.  He makes us God!  Perfect Mary is the proof!  She has a position equal to God in heaven, a mere mortal!  I have been reminded of this during these past few days in the Mass readings.

Today: Galatians 5: "...qua libertate Christus nos liberavit."  By our birth of the free woman, not of the slave, Christ has made us free--sons, and for freedom.  In other words by His sanctifying us He has made us sons of God.  Truly sons.  Not figuratively.  By adoption, not by inheritance, but no less truly.  "Amen, amen I say to you, everyone who commits sin is a slave[...]of sin...If the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed." Jn. 8:34

What really struck me was the Gospel last week (Wednesday [27 p.a.] Luke 11:1-4) on the Pater Noster.  It is unthinkable that we should call God our Father without qualification--the very thing for which the Jews killed Christ, a logical impossibility, viz. that we, being men, should make ourselves God.  Well, Christ, being God by nature, makes us God by grace (by communion with Him)--Christ adopts us by His incarnation and redemption into the family of the Most Blessed Trinity.  We have been given an added nature, the divine nature.  That is the only way that we can honestly say the Pater.  If God is our Father we are the same species!  That makes us God!  Wow!

"Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God; and such we are!"  1Jn. 3:1

Man is God!  That is the essence and the purpose of Christ and of Christianity, not in the poetic sense but really.  The divine nature He gives us is just as real as the human nature He has given us!  Christians have both natures just as Christ does!