God Became Man So That Man Might Become God

 The Orthodox doctrine of the Trinity misses the point of the Incarnation entirely. It was never just about Jesus being God and co-equal with the Father and the Holy Spirit. It was never even about Jesus receiving the same worship as the Father, something which He never asked for or demanded. The only being who asked for worship in the New Testament was Satan when he was tempting Jesus. 

     The point of the incarnation was always found in John 17 where Jesus prayed to the Father, ""Not for these only do I pray, but for those also who believe in me through their word,

21 "that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me. 22 "The glory which you have given me, I have given to them; that they may be one, even as we are one; 23 "I in them, and you in me, that they may be made whole into one; that the world may know that you sent me, and loved them, even as you loved me. "  

     It was never about just Jesus Christ Himself being God as the Logos, one with the Father, but it was always about each and every one of us being one with another because we are also one with Him as He is one with the Father. It was never only about the Father, the Logos, and the Holy Spirit, but about the Father, the Logos, the Spirit, and each one of us, all one with each other and with and through Him. 

      Being the Logos of God incarnate, Jesus taught us how to also activate that piece of His logos within each one of us so that we too could also be like Him, Logos incarnated into flesh, and ultimately God made flesh like Him in total submission to and cooperation with the God and Father like Him. Jesus Christ's mission was to be the firstborn among many siblings. His mission was to make Himself not unique, but one of many. The first of many to be sure, but one of many nonetheless. By focusing on the "mystery of the Trinity" we completely miss the greater mystery and purpose which is written all over the New Testament, that, as so many Church Fathers repeated throughout the centuries, "God became Man, so that man might become God."