Quiz: About the meaning of life

According to the general statement of the Fathers, God became man so that man, through Him, might become God. This means that through the Incarnation of the Son of God and the Redemption and the founding of the Church that resulted from this event, man received the real possibility and fullness of the means to become a son of God by adoption, a god by grace.

To this the Fathers unanimously testify. "The Son of God became the son of man in order that man might become the son of God," says St Irenaeus of Lyons. "He became man so that we might be deified" (St Athanasius the Great). "The firm and sure foundation of the hope of deification for human nature is the Incarnation of God," teaches St Maximus the Confessor.