Matthew 5:48 (NRSV) — Theosis

Verily, verily, I say unto you, this is my gospel; and ye know the things that ye must do in my church; for that which ye have seen me do even that shall ye do ...

Whoever sheds the blood of a human, by a human shall that person’s blood be shed, for in his own image God made humans.

Charles Sanders Peirce

The purpose of creation as it must appear to us in our highest approaches to an understanding of it . . . is God’s movement toward self-reproduction.