Identification with Christ would lift the believer through the human nature of Christ to union with his divine nature and thus with God and thus to deification.… The church could not regard “salvation” as simply a restoration of what had been lost in the first Adam, the original creation; it had to be an incorporation into what had been vouchsafed in the second Adam, a new creation.8 At the heart of this understanding of salvation as participation in the divine nature, involving a transformation