[InChristAlone]

Thank you, Drake.
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"According to the Eastern Orthodox Tradition, the final purpose of our life is not moral improvement but deification (greek - theosis), the full union of man with God.

God created man ‘in His image and likeness’. Having been formed ‘in His image’ (love, self-awareness, free will, creativity, etc) man is called upon to be acquire the ‘in His likeness’, in other words, deification.

Church Fathers say that God became man in order to make man a god. The full union with God, Theosis, becomes possible with the incarnation of the Divine Logos.

Adam and Eve wanted to become gods, but not in collaboration with God. They separated themselves from God, and instead of attaining deification, they attained exactly the opposite: mortality and spiritual death.

What had been made ‘in His image’ was sullied. Since the fall, man no longer has the preconditions for proceeding to deification, as he had before he sinned. Thus there is a need for a new root for humanity; a need for a new man, who will be healthy and able to redirect the freedom of man towards God.

This new root, the new man, is the God-man, Jesus Christ, the Son and Logos of God, the new Adam, who incarnates to become the new root, the new beginning, the new leaven of humanity..."