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The Beatific Vision and Freedom of Choice. Excerpt from Chapter 13 of Frank J. Sheed's book "Theology & Sanity" (1947) For angels and men the only purpose could be the most perfect possible relation …More
The Beatific Vision and Freedom of Choice.
Excerpt from Chapter 13 of Frank J. Sheed's book "Theology & Sanity" (1947)
For angels and men the only purpose could be the most perfect possible relation with God.
Had we no revelation from God Himself as to the purpose for which He made them, we might at least hazard a guess;
that as the highest powers of their nature are knowledge and love,
it must be their destiny to come to know God and love God to the very limit of their power,
using no element of energy upon anything that would distract them from this knowing and loving.
Again considering their nature, we might hazard the further guess that this knowing of God would be by way of a richer and richer concept of Him, and that their love of God would bear a proportion to their growing knowledge. Such a natural destiny would be a thing of unrealizable splendour; yet that is not their destiny, but something more splendid still. No examination of the nature of angels and men would tell us what …More