Jesus Christ
“Our faith is called Christianity because Christ is at its center. We look to Him, we strive towards Him, and we become like Him…Christ proclaimed the God Whose love we do not need to earn, because God is Love…Christ proclaimed God and showed us in Himself a true man, called to be the image and likeness of God. St. Gregory Palamas says that “God assumes human nature to show to what extent it is free from sin and so pure that it was possible to unite it with Himself in hyposta
Perfect/Perfectionism
“Thus, we can’t look to Adam or the book of Genesis to see human perfection because Adam was not created perfect; he was only potentially perfectible. We will not find in the book of Genesis how to be a perfect human. Adam did not fall from a state of perfection, rather he failed to develop this potential in himself. Jesus Christ is the perfect human and it is only from Him that we can understand what human perfection means. And Christ was born as a baby who also had to grow