What does the Catechism of the Catholic Church have to say about having “eternal life?
A. The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches us that to have “eternal life” is to have the knowledge of God. This truth is based on the special meaning of the word “know” in the Gospel of God, the word “know” meaning knowledge in which personal involvement is always supposed. On this subject, the Catechism of the Catholic Church states: C.C.C. # 1721 “God put us in the world to know, to love, and to serve him, and so to come to paradise. Beatitude makes us “partakers of the divine nature” and of eternal life. [2 Pet 1:4; Jn 17:3] With beatitude, man enters into the glory of Christ [Rom 8:18] and into the joy of the Trinitarian life.
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