“The Word became flesh for us in order to save us by reconciling us with God…so that we might know God’s love…to be our model of holiness…to make us ‘partakers of the divine nature ...

He teaches that this power has not only freed us from the world's corruption, but has actually made us partakers of the divine nature (1:4). Peter lists traits that should characterize Christians ...

and almighty God which makes us partakers of the life eternal which Jesus Christ has earned for us. By effectual calling we thus understand that mysterious divine and humanly inexplicable act of ...