*DIVINE/*DIVINITY - Also see GOD, MAN, SPIRIT, SOUL, WITHIN, CHRIST, GIFT, UNITY, REALITY
Antonyms: SIN
Jesus was fully human and fully divine.
Made in the “image and likeness” of God (Gen.1:27) we do have access to, and are to be partakers of the Divine Nature and in His holiness. (2 Peter 1:4)
A transfusion of their selves by His Self: an entrance upon a new order of life, so high and so harmonious with Reality that it can only be called divine. Only the divine is real. (p503) (Mysticism)
Don't throw out the baby with the bath water or downgrade Jesus' divinity to being only human, rather raise our consciousness to meet Jesus in his divinity. (Randy, 1/15/09)
Divine may refer to: the concept of divinity, related to holiness and the supernatural (Wikipedia)
Unity School of Christianity believes: man's primary purpose is to recognize that he is divine. (http://www.leaderu.com/orgs/probe/docs/unity.html)
If a soul does not accept its divine origin, it cannot express its divine potential. (http://www.askrealjesus.com/K_JESUS_ANSWERS/D_BY_JESUS/Onlyson.html)
The time has never been so ripe to realize eachother as "one planetary organism in contact with itself anywhere on the planet." The Emergence of our Empowered Potential, Our Divinity is presenting itself to be claimed. How to experience this reality consciously? Where-ever one looks, the universal answer points to one's own body, one's own mental attitude, the energy of one's own heart, one's own living breath as the beginning place of orientation to feel one's unique connection to and expression of the functioning of Totality.
(http://www.13moon.com/prophecy%20page.htm)
In Crossing the Threshold of Hope (Knopf:1994), Pope John Paul II wrote that "Salvation and Divinization" are the "ultimate purpose" of man's life: "The Divinization of man comes from God" (p. l95). He also directed (along with Cardinal Ratzinger - now Pope Benedict XVI) the first revision of the Catechism of the Catholic Church in 400 years, quoting St. Athanasius and St. Thomas Aquinas, and declaring, "The Word became flesh to make us 'partakers of the Divine Nature': 'For this is why the Word became man, and the Son of God became the Son of man: so that man, by entering into communion with the Word and thus receiving Divine Sonship, might become a Son of God.' 'For the Son of God became man so that we might become God.' 'The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in His Divinity, assumed our nature, so that He, made man, might make men Gods.'" (http://www.ascension-research.org/Pope-John-Paul-the-Great.html)
Human beings would only fulfill themselves when thry had been united to God - humans had a potential for the divine and would become fully human only if this was realized. (p129) Divinity and humanity were thus two aspects of the divine life that animates the entire cosmos. Ibn al-Arabi believed that each human person was a unique incarnation of the divine. Mystics have unique experience of God, therefore it followed that no one religion could express the whole of the divine mystery. (p238) (History of God)
All religions are in the pursuit of the same God, and eventually, through the wonderful process of self-realization (yoga, meditation, prayer, kind acts, forgiveness), we will find God because that was Christ's 'Way".... that was Christ's teaching to us!! We know that God lives in each one of us...even people like you. God doesn't see religions, colors, sex or any other kind of groups like you do. You say we New Agers call ourselves 'divine'...but the truth is that we are all part of God...who is divine .. thereby we have that holy spirit within each of us. However the power of this spirit is only available when it is combined with others who also have this glorious realization.... because it is in the unity of our spirits that there is power. Response - The belief in the divinity of man is a lie. It is, in fact, the original lie that Satan used. He convinced Eve to eat of the forbidden fruit with the lure that if she did so she would “be like God.” Satan has used this lie throughout history to deceive many. (http://www.contenderministries.org/mail/newage.php)
Realize that God is in your heart, that He has always been there and that He is Love. Love is Supreme God and calls you to unite with It – in love and devotion. (http://kazik1.republika.pl/FirstSteps/38-Preliminaries.htm)
The search for our true essence or God, isn't a search at all, rather the Divine unfolding in us and through us. The Divine comes to consciousness in us. God is the seeker. God awakens in us. We can only let go and "get out of God's way" (Eckhart says) so that the Divine can unfold or reveal itself - if only we don't prevent it. Redemption from being possessed by our ego so that our real selves can spread their wings. (p13) We bear a divine seed within us, the seed that wants to thrust through all the encrustations of the material world, to grow, and to reveal itself. Our search for meaning is simply that mysterious evolutionary power of the Divine. The more we can open ourselves to our [divine] core, we shall solve our problems. (back cover) (Meaning)
Divine Revelation meditation is a way to experience who you are and identify yourself with divine qualities, so you can begin to recognize yourself as divine love, light, healing power, energy, wholeness, oneness, and peace. (Divine Rev, p103)