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137: Becoming God (Deification/Theosis), with Fr. James Brent O.P.

Pints With Aquinas

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The Difference Between Human Adoption and Natural Adoption

Paul says we receive the spirit. So is not to ha him adopting us like taking us under his house? that's right, yokey. That's an important i'm glad you're brought up. Because what this passage does it sets up an analogy for us. And there is an analogy with the human act of adoption where you have some one who, for whatever reason, ther his or her natural parents, i will not raise them. Another family that has different life blood takes this child int ther home. The difference is precisely this. In human adoption, the adoptive child does not share in the very life blood of the adopted family. But in mystical adoption, it's not only

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