One of the great passages of the Scriptures appears in Peter's second epistle and in a recent reading from Charles Spurgeon's writings, he speaks of how we are partakers in God's Divine nature - as he points out, not by being divine in our own nature, but by our relationship "in Christ". 2 Peter 1:3-4 3 His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, 4 by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire. To be a partaker of the divine nature is not, of course, to become God. That cannot be. The essence of Deity is not to be participated in by the creature. Between the creature and the Creator there will always be a fixed gulf in terms of essence; but as the first man Adam was made in the