It is important to note that the saints themselves do not dissolve into God. This isn’t a sort of Eastern mysticism where the ultimate end of a person is dissolving into the being of God. Instead, as the saint comes to know God, and the union between them grows greater and greater for eternity, the saint is upheld and made fully himself or herself. God’s purpose is not to overtake us, but to fill us with his life and love. God calls us to partake in the happiness he has known for eternity past and will continue to know for eternity future. Just as God’s life is not some kind of static
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