The Christian Understanding of Happiness
The relationship with God allows man to find the sense of life. Christianity is a humanism – it positions man in the very centre of the world according him the highest place – of the being created after God’s image. The revelation of God’s Love endows man with a new way of enriching himself an...
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2016-04-01
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| description | The relationship with God allows man to find the sense of life. Christianity is a humanism –
it positions man in the very centre of the world according him the highest place – of the
being created after God’s image. The revelation of God’s Love endows man with a new way
of enriching himself and others. Thus the desire for happiness gains a new perspective of
the divine longing for good.
Happiness which Christ promises exceeds the limits of our imagination. It is incon
ceivable and incomprehensible to those living on earth. Heaven is beyond every word,
beyond our conception for it bears the meaning which man cannot fully understand. It
is the most supreme happiness, absolutely perfect and complete which no one has ever
known.
A Christian has to achieve in his life something more than the worldly aims. Whoever
limits their life to the earth, focuses only on enjoying and using this life to the full; squeezing
from it the last drop heedless of the needs of others. |
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