Most Holy Trailer Park Monastery really ticked Dyer off with that anti-Orthodoxy video.
Theosis
Alexander Bailey
Elijah Nguyen
It's autism vs autism, the fight of the century
Jack Stewart
For me it seems to be a Holy and righteous/right hand path version of the Law of Attraction. Where you don't so much manifest what you want, but by living in communion with God's grace and "listening" when the Holy Spirit speaks you will become the best version of yourself.
I wish there was more about how to actually live in Theosis. All the books I find just support the idea of it and explain what it is but not how to go about it, save for attending Liturgy partaking in Communion and utilizing the Jesus Prayer.
Adam Anderson
Orthodox understanding of theosis is radically different from other Christian conceptions. St. Peter's enjoinder that we are to become "partakers of the divine nature" is taken literally and something that is possible in this life, not something deferred to the next in the beatific vision. We are to become God in every way save identity. This isn't possible if one has the conception of God as absolutely simple essence as the Catholics and Protestants, but only if there is a distinction between God's essence and his energies.
See the first pdf of this post for a good overview of the essence/energies distinction:
Jeremiah Howard
You are making advances with your effort by the grace. I would say this pleases God much more than receiving a sacrament passively. First is the heart and later the forms. Apart from this Catholics are called to live in a sacerdotal way.
Ryder Stewart
What is theosis? Is it like union with the absolute of eastern religions? Is it becoming God or merely being adopted sons?
It's simply impossible to tell, because it is above reason and can't be understood unless through direct experience.
God willing you will have your answer, in this life or in the eternal life.
Clean your mind from things you can't know, because it is not helpful nor necessary to be a good christian.
Hudson Reed
no, this is absolute garbage
no not Big-G at least, small-g one is applied to us already in psalm 82:6
this is part of it, but not all of it
Church knows very well about the subject and it was part of apostolic Christianity since time immemorial. And yes, it is helpful to be a good Christian. We got pr*testantism and their meme """"theologies"""" after this concept was forgotten there
Kayden Bailey
Evan Williams
But God essence is unapproachable to us. We can only contemplate God in his divine energies which were manifested as the divine light on Mt. Tabor and the fire/light on Mt. Sinai. The Latin conception of God is heretical because it reduces his essence as a part of creation. Anathema!
Alexander Walker
I like the idea that we are walking alongside christ rather than that we are considering his actions from afar.
I would certainly argue there is a time and place for both. For his miracles, wonders, and majesty the Roman catholic way makes a ton of sense, but in the acts of spreading the word and performing miracles (even small ones) i would argue that the Orthodox explanation makes more sense.
Am i wrong? I dunno i'm currently protestant but i think this is interesting to discuss, might even be worth its own thread.