[OBW]

Drake,

One more point on "zoe" which probably should put it to bed as an irrelevancy in this whole discussion.

Zoe is not a description of an aspect of the life we have. Not like bios which speaks of the physical life. Or psuche which speaks of the psychological life. Some might think that zoe is kind of like an alternative to bios which is superior. Maybe like saying that being a spirit rather than being a normal, physical being, is superior.

But that is not it either. If you look at the definitions — all of them — you should begin to see that zoe is more like a comment on quality of the whole of life. While it is patently true that in a world that is created by God, his life would be the most in whatever way it is that zoe is intended to describe. But that does not make his life "more zoe," but rather the best example of the life that we would like to have as reflecting our zoe.

So zoe, in reference to you or me, is about the life that we live. It is the qualitative overview of the whole of our living. It is not about whether we have God's life. It is not definitionally changed just because we have God's life, though that would be an expected outcome. And the things that make it something that in modern vernacular would be described as "getting all the gusto you can get," does not make it "more zoe." Zoe is the "container" of what we describe as the entirety of our life. And the entirety of a pagan's life is not God's life. So Zoe is not simply God's life. That would be like saying "the description of the quality of your life is simply God."