Quote of the Day
In the briefest terms possible, Orthodox Christians do not believe that Christ’s death was payment to God the Father for sin, but rather that Christ has redeemed human nature by participating in it. The Incarnation was necessary because Christ redeemed our human nature and reconciled it to God by uniting it with His divinity. St. Gregory the Theologian famously stated that “That which is not assumed is not healed.” St. Athanasius the Great claimed that through the Incarnation, “God became man so that man might become deified.” Both of these expound upon St. Peter’s words that we may become partakers of the divine nature.