God is the end of the world

[J1Priest]

I posted this in (Edited) Forums, which is a very Protestant (and anti-Catholic) Forum. I wanted to see what these Bible-only Protestants would say to the proposition that God is the end (telos) of the world.
I only got one reply that had nothing to do with the topic, to which I replied “it seems there are no philosophers here”.

Let’s see how this question takes on at CAF. Don’t disappoint me!

God bless

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Here it is:​

The Psalmist said, “As a hart longs for flowing streams, so longs my soul for thee, O God.” (Ps 42:1)
and again, “My soul longs, yea, faints for the courts of the LORD; my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God.” (Ps. 84:2)
St. Augustine said, “our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee”.

God is our first begining and our last end.
He is the reason we live.
He created us for Himself, so that He could love us and we love Him back.

He is the end of the world.
(Speaking about telos, purpose)

Our purpose in life is to achieve happiness, and this true happiness, this eternal bliss, is nothing but Heaven, of which the Psalmist says,
“One thing have I asked of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple.” (Ps. 27:4)
For this is what Heaven is, beholding the beauty of God (cf. Ps 27:4), seeing God as He is (cf. 1 John 3:2).

 

[Jim_Baur]

Yes.

He is the Alpha and Omega.

I have often prayed over this reality.

In fact, I have considered the following:

He is the Fire of Love and Fire for those who reject Him.

 

[J1Priest]

So it is a true philosophical and theological statement?

I heard it in my univerity during lunch, as a joke.
I thought to bring it up to the Protestants to make them think and to see if they would reject it simply because I am Catholic.
There are many views but only one reply which does not address the topic in any way. He did not approve nor refute it, just wrote something else.

But would the statement be philosophical or theological, or both? It deals with end (telos), so it would be more philosophical… Until you bring that God is our end… But then again, in philosophy class we studied Aquinas’ Treatise on Happiness from a philosophical point of view, and the early philosophers addressed God and His nature, even though they were not Jews nor Christians.