New Testament shows that we were remade to live in God by sharing the love of the Blessed Trinity for eternity in heaven. Both elements are essential for understanding what it means to be truly human, but only the second one is our true and ultimate end, what theologians call the Beatific Vision. We would completely fall short were we to attain anything less. This means that from the outset, our stay on earth was only meant to be temporary. This explains why the New Testament views the Old Covenant
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