That protology leads to this conclusion from the outset is also shown in the eager longing of creation as depicted in Romans 8: creation “waits with eager longing”, “groaning in travail”—not for the specific Incarnation of Jesus, but for its fulfillment in his Mystical Body. For we Christians, who as members of this body have already received the “warrant of the Spirit”, “groan inwardly as we wait for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies”. In no way is it the desire of creation to be spiritualized;