The idea of seeing God is often related to the idea of satisfaction (happiness) in eternity, where God’s work of redemption is complete. In this sense, the beatific vision is a way to talk about the completion of God’s work of reconciliation—the culmination of what began when Jesus declared, “It is finished” (Jn 19:30). Life is a pilgrimage of faith that dissolves into sight. That sight is the beatific vision. Since the culmination of faith is sight, faith comes to take on attributes of sight. As pilgrims, we see through a glass darkly, but we see nonetheless (1 Cor 13:12). The life of faith
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