Adam’s way of being like God was different from Christ’s way of revealing God. Adam wanted power and position; he wanted to be “like God” for all the wrong reasons. Adam chose the path of self-sovereignty. Jesus revealed God as One who “emptied Himself of all but love”. If we would be deified, then it will be through self-emptying love. We cannot pursue the divine likeness until we know what it is; know this, it is perfectly revealed in Jesus. The divine image must be intentionally pursued by desire, full consecration, prayer, and discipleship; without this pursuit we are being shaped by what is pursuing us. We are being shaped to be like Him or the world around us.
Deification, Self-sovereignty,
