Claim. A person who has fulfilled God’s first blessing — perfecting their character so that mind and body are unified through give-and-take with God at the center — becomes a “temple of God” sharing God’s Heart, and “would never commit any sinful acts that would cause God grief… This means they would never fall.”
Elaboration. Per 3.2. Good Object Partners for the Joy of God: “In order for an individual to perfect his character, he must form a four position foundation within himself whereby his mind and body become one through give and take action with God as their center. Such individuals become the temples of God, achieve complete oneness with Him, and acquire a divine nature. They experience the Heart of God as if it were their own. Hence, they understand His Will and live fully attuned to it… Accordingly, when people realize God’s first blessing, they become God’s beloved who inspire Him with joy. Sharing all the feelings of God as their own, they would never commit any sinful acts that would cause God grief. This means they would never fall.”
This is one of DP’s most distinctive christological claims and has cascading implications. First, it is part of why the fall of adam and eve must have occurred during their growing period, not after perfection — perfect beings cannot sin, so the fall presupposes immaturity. Second, it provides DP’s account of jesus’s sinlessness without recourse to a unique hypostatic union: Jesus was a fully realized individual who attained the first blessing, and sinlessness follows from that perfection rather than from a metaphysically unique nature. Third, it sets the eschatological target for every believer: perfection in this life is not merely aspirational but ontologically possible and definitionally non-falling.
See also. dp-fall-occurred-at-top-of-growth-stage