What is "Human" 2

The last post indicated the central problem of "humanness". Are we animal? or are we divine?
The Bible seems to say "Both". The Bible is the story of the difficulties inherent in that contradiction.
Every philospher recognizes the fundamental problem of Christian (and Jewish actually) theology. How can human (that is, created animal) share in the divine nature?

Most non-Christian philosophers get out of it easily by saying, "They can't" and leave it at that.
A Christian philosopher has no choice however (not an orthodox Christian anyway!)
The Cappadocian Fathers, Basil the Great, Gregory of Nysssa and Gregory of Nazianzius were the first to tackle this problem in the 4th century, from the viewpoint of theological philosophy. The long term result were the creeds, including the Nicene creed recited in most churches each week.

In short, the answer of Christian theology is that human and divine cannot "naturally" coexist, but because of the work of Christ, God now has a way of "adopting" people into the "divine family".

The interesting thing here is the idea of something totally new. Orthodox Christian theology actually seems to be very radical when its claims are examined carefully. The human-divine being (whose first example was Jesus Christ) is actually just the first off the production line. He is the mould from which a multitude of others will be cast. Biblically, he is the "firstborn of many brethren" (Romans 8:29).
Christianity says: humans are not divine naturally, ("from dust you came, to dust you will return"), but a way has been made for us to take on a divine nature.