Our relationship with God, regardless of our religious background or lack thereof, is the ultimate cause of good in our lives, for without it we would be nothing. Granted, by no means whatsoever is anyone perfect. Because everyone lacks the Divine truth of the word of God, there is no pathway that leads to perfection. From a Christian's point of view, to achieve perfection means to live precisely the way Jesus of Nazareth has lived His life; it is to live exactly the way He preaches to His followers, which is impossible. Likewise, from the non-believers' perspective, perfection cannot be obtained. Does this imply that Christians live better lives than non-believers because Christians follow Jesus and are striving more to keep His word? Our relationship with God is professed by priests, biblical scholars, pastors, and numerous other classifications of teachers of the Sacred Scriptures to be the most important part of our lives. Jesus is the Son of God, the one who gave up His life in order to relieve our sins. Jesus was sinless because He is the Son of God. Jesus was perfect in His life. On the other hand, none of us as mortal human beings are perfect -- however we are still loved by God unconditionally. This does not mean that we are Divine. Nevertheless, our relationship with God would be closer if we had sinned less than we actually have. So why are we loved unconditionally? And does God love us all equally? How does this contradict with the ideology that some people have a closer relationship with God than other people? Also, why is there a Heaven and a Hell?
I will begin by suggesting the idea that as Christian followers, our relationship with God directly correlates with how successful we are in life, as fol...
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...nd without the Is in our life, we have nothing; we are nothing. Without relating to God to any extent, it does not matter how much work we put in throughout our lives to serve others besides God -- in the end, it does not matter.
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2 The Relational God: Aquinas and Beyond by Catherine M. LaCugna, pp. 655
3The Relational God: Aquinas and Beyond by Catherine M. LaCugna, pp. 647
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6 The Relational God: Aquinas and Beyond by Catherine M. LaCugna, pp. 659; LaCugna describes God as being relational through threefoldness.
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8The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver, pp. 309
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