[zeek]

Originally Posted by InChristAlone

Once on this forum, we discussed the Theosis in the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Churches. I have not changed my mind about it since that time. For us EO Christians, the purpose of man's life is union/communion with God. And deification (theosis) is both a transformative process as well as the goal of that process. In other words, the goal is the attainment of likeness to or union with God. The path to this communion: faith, prayer, partaking in the divine nature through the Eucharist (the Holy Communion) and walking in the Commandments with the help of God’s grace.

From Wikipedia:

Theosis ("deification," "divinization") is the process of a worshiper becoming free of hamartía ("missing the mark"), being united with God, beginning in this life and later consummated in bodily resurrection. For Orthodox Christians, Théōsis (see 2 Pet. 1:4) is salvation. Théōsis assumes that humans from the beginning are made to share in the Life or Nature of the all-Holy Trinity.
http://orthodoxwiki.org/Theosis

On the earth, we just start the process of deification. And we will reach our goal of the attainment of likeness to or union with God only after the Lord's second coming when He transforms our bodies.

More about theosis:
http://orthodoxinfo.com/general/theosis.aspx
http://malankaraorthodoxchurch.in/in...113&Itemid=248
http://orthodoxinfo.com/general/theosis-english.pdf a book

How does theosis differ from Lee's GED? Or does it?