“The Church’s faith in the
eternity of man is not the conviction that there is somehow a future
“condition” where “something” from man survives, his “soul” or his “spirit”.
But it is the certainty that my nature and its existential possibilities do not
secure the hypostasis of my life; my relationship with God, his erotic love for
me, secure it and constitute it. Faith in eternity is the trust that this love
will not stop but will always constitute my life whether my psychosomatic
capacities function or do not function.
Faith in eternal life is not an
ideological certainty; it is not defended with arguments. It is a motion of
trust, a deposit of our hopes and our thirst for life in the love of God. He
who gives us here and now such a wealth of life, in spite of our own
psychosomatic resistances to the realization of life (of real life which is a
loving self –transcendence and communion), he has promised us also fullness of
life, direct adoption, a face to face relationship with Him, the last
resistances of our rebellion are put out in the earth”[1].
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