The idea of Theosis will be unfamiliar to the Western (Roman Catholic and Protestant) mind, although it is not a new concept to Christianity. When Christ said, "Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand," this is a call to a life of Theosis.

According to Father John Romanides, of blessed memory, "Modern man hates the idea of sin more than all other ideas. He will do anything to avoid admitting that he is sinful in more than a superficial sense. Sin must be excused, or denied, or refined as something different from sin."

"When God is at work in us, every kind of virtue becomes our own, but when He is not, everything we do is sin. As the Lord says in the Gospel: "Without Me ye can do nothing" (St. John 15:5).

God does not desire the death of a sinner, but rather that the sinners turn away from their sins and life. In the Holy Mystery (ion) or Sacrament of Repentance/Confession we have the means to obtain forgiveness of our sins, and be restored to the favor of God, Our Heavenly Father.

Another fruit, the third, of Divine Grace is man's rebirth. Man has his natural birth from his physical parents. This birth is that which brings him into life sinful, burdened with the ancestral ("original") sin. With this sinful root and inclination which he possesses, he goes on to evil and lives a sinful life, committing sinful acts.

Faith and science are not in opposition. A scientist of our time says: "One of the greatest tragedies of our time is this impression that science and religion have to be at war." Another scientist advanced a principle he calls "noma" or "non-overlapping magisteria of science and religion, "according to which "the magisterium of science covers the empirical the composition of the universe ('fact') and the way it works ('theory').