Therefore, to say: ‘The Kingdom of God has come – you are already objectively Happy, now only one thing is required of you, to be Happy – to want to Live the Fullness of Being’, is the same as to say: ‘God is Love (loves us – wishes us Happiness, and does everything dependent on Him so that we might be Happy), death (the last enemy of wholeness) is destroyed, and we have become healthy, whole, that is, resurrected’. If we can talk about these ‘events’ (the destruction of death and our resurrection) in the past tense (as such that have already happened, taken place), then Happiness is already available to everyone, but if in terms of the future tense (death will someday be destroyed and we will someday resurrect), then we are again (or: for now) in the Old Testament, the covenant of promise, expectation for the future (not hope for the past, accomplished; hope as an actualization of what has already happened, that is, our resurrection. – see Chapter I) – we are still unhappy, and the promise that we will someday be – is not ‘full joy’!?
But the Church of Christ boldly, not afraid to appear foolish and tempting in the eyes of the world, proclaims that the Kingdom of God has come, it is already among us and in us (from us ‘one thing is required’ – to enter it, to accept it). If so, then the Church proclaims that: God is Love, death is destroyed and resurrection is granted. Let’s listen to this eternal ‘Rejoice!’, with which the Church addresses each of us…”