Other than belief in universal salvation, how does the CUA differ from “standard” Christian churches?
The CUA teaches a view of the Gospel that is quite different from what has come to be known as mainline Protestant or Roman Catholic theology. In addition to the teaching that everyone will eventually be saved, we also teach that all people are the offspring of God, created in the divine image, and destined to be perfected and patterned after Christ as the ultimate outcome of salvation in the fullness of time. We see salvation as more of a process of growth and transformation of the soul to become one with the Christ Spirit, rather than being saved from God’s anger and the threat of punishment. This concept, called “theosis” (Greek for divinization) is the original teaching of the Bible and most of the early church fathers about human nature and destiny, which was mostly lost in the Western churches (Catholic and Protestant) but has been retained to some limited degree in the Eastern Orthodox churches. Our strong belief in divinization is only one way in which the CUA seeks to return t
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