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By assuming human nature, the Son of God also took
on human freedom, the free human will. And He fulfilled
His Father’s Loving Will as a human being, using His hu-
man will.
According to His Father’s Will, Christ abolished death
as an ontological isolation and fragmentation of creation
and transformed even death into a relationship—a rela-
tionship of love with His Heavenly Father and His fellow
human beings. In this way, through His death, He con-
quered death and was resurrected!
Therefore, God’s original Will, according to which He
desired to create free and unique persons by bringing the
world into existence, was not thwarted but was fulfilled in
the person of the new Adam, Christ. Through their union
with Christ, in Baptism and the Holy Eucharist, human
beings take on the identity of Christ, becoming Sons of
God, truly free and unique persons, permanent and un-
changeable, forever, within God’s infinite Love, which does
not alter, change, or ever fail!
Eschatology
Experience, however, tells us that even though the Son
of God was incarnated, died, and was resurrected, we do
not yet exist as persons. We still live within the limits of our
fallen, created nature, under the reign of death and in
deadly competition.
The Church and the Gospel teach us that the personal
way of existence for us will be realized in the Kingdom of
God. Then, God’s ontological will shall be fulfilled, ulti-
mately and irrevocably, at the end of times. This is why the