justaname said:
Is it that we ourselves have the divine nature or that we have access to it?
Do you believe we become the Holy Spirit?
Here's what I believe: God, in salvation, is recreating us into His sons (1Thes 5:23 (blameless .. body, soul, and spirit"). It starts with the soul — the command headquarters of our entire lives. In justification, He makes us exactly like Jesus — so without sin in our souls by virtue of the indwelling of Christ's Spirit (1Jn 3:9).
Then, through sanctification, He changes our spirits to think, emote, and will like His own Spirit. This is done as the Spirit works out into our lives controlling that which the law never could.
But in glorification, He also gives us a body like Jesus' body. 1Cor 15:38-40 calls it a "body of terrestrial glory" — the "glory" being that of the Holy Spirit shining out in our lives. Jn 17:21-23 is also very instructive telling us that we are already made one with the Father and Son in Christ — "that they may be made perfect in one; that the world may know that You have sent Me, and You have loved them as You have loved Me."
So in salvation, God takes away our sin nature — our heart inclined to sin and our conscience guilty of sin. He takes these away as far as the east is from the west. And this is part of the salvation experience, justaname.
Both the lifting of the burden of sin on our conscience and the receiving of the Spirit in our hearts are witness that we have been forgiven by God. And this is the divine nature as I understand it: A pure conscience and an earnest desire to do the will of God.
So I believe that we become "Comforters" .. "another" like Jesus to those that we live among, Jn 14:16.
skypair