What you are is God’s gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.
What you are is God’s gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.
St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the Divine. That is why all pre-Christian philosophy is theological at its summit.
But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.
The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.