2 Peter 1:4
Jonathan Burke
jburke at sprint.net.au
Sun Nov 24 06:50:52 EST 2002
Hi Carl,
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Or, if you are willing to honor the law of contradiction, they have it IN
PART and they don't have it FULLY.
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Uh... ok. I guess that clears all that up. :)
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Moreover, the phrase QEIA FUSIS is a strange one to describe what the
believer "has."
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I think it's a pretty odd phrase indeed. What do you suppose it means?
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The NET has a nice note on this:
"Although Peter has borrowed the expression partakers of the divine nature
from paganism, his meaning is clearly Christian. He does not mean apotheosis
(man becoming a god) in the pagan sense, but rather that believers have an
organic connection with God. Because of such a connection, God can truly be
called our Father. Conceptually, this bears the same meaning as Paul's 'in
Christ' formula. Peter's statement, though startling at first, is hardly
different from Paul's prayer for the Ephesians that they 'may be filled up
to all the fullness of God'"
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Ok, so is this FUSIS:
1) Ontological?
2) Mental/spiritual - the same FUSIS as is in 1 Corinthians 11?
Thanks for your help, I think I'm getting there.
Jonathan Burke.
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