St. Athanasius famously wrote:
For He (Jesus) was made man that we might be made God (On the Incarnation, Ch. LIV, Pt. III, circa 4th Cent. A.D.).
St. Basil, “The Treatise On the Holy Spirit” cap. 9, 22-23: pg 32, 107-110
“Through the Spirit we become citizens of Heaven, we are admitted to the company of angels, we enter into eternal happiness, and abide in God. Through the Spirit we acquire a likeness to God; indeed, we attain what is beyond our most sublime aspirations – we become God.”
St. Thomas Aquinas, Office of Readings for Corpus Christi: “Since it was the will of God’s only-begotten Son that men should share in his divinity, he assumed our nature in order that by becoming man he might make men gods.
St. Augustine, in his Confessions, says that he heard Jesus say: “I am the food of grown men: grow, and you shall eat Me. And you shall not change Me into yourself as bodily food, but into Me you shall be changed” (7, X).
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