In traditional Christianity, the ultimate goal of the soul is to love and serve God with all one’s heart, soul, and mind, to achieve unity with Him in eternity. To prepare for eternal life, we must join ourselves to Christ and strive to live in harmony with the divine will. To be fully human is to be fully conformed to that reality—as C. S. Lewis would say, to the things that are—through cooperating with God’s freely given grace.
