Божество

Carried away by pride, Adam dreamed of becoming a god in paradise. He attempted to thievishly and forcibly steal the deity from the Deity, to assimilate the infinite to the limited through the cunning and effort of a weak creature. The creature died while trying to carry out a daring, insane plan. She did not comprehend the infinite goodness of God, capable of bestowing on creation not only the advantage of the angelic and human natures, but also His Divinity itself, to the extent that creation is capable of accepting such a gift. The plan and attempt of the forefathers were futile and murderous: God Himself teaches His Divinity to humanity, who desired divinity, having become incarnate from the Virgin, taking the form of a slave and a creature, communing with the nature of rational creatures, in order to make them capable of partaking of the Divine nature. 24 Receive what is given without envy; accept what is given with indescribable goodness; accept what is incapable of being kidnapped either through tame tricks or through predatory violence! Because of the pride that made you want, through your own effort and unscrupulous cunning, to kidnap and appropriate for yourself an inviolable and unapproachable deity, do not reject the great honor, do not renounce for the sake of the dignity of beasts and devils the dignity of the gods, which was brought to you on earth, in the deplorable vale of your exile, by God Himself, humbled to the flesh and born of a Virgin. “When Adam and God lied of old, they desired to be, but not to be. Man [man] is God, and God makes Adam [god].” Akathist to the Mother of God. 4th stichera. You might be interested in: