Should the infinite nature of God be desired by us though we cannot take part in it?

[Thomas_Jennings]

God’s quality is without end…there is literally no limit to His beauty, amount of joy and He is utterly timeless…
Yet we are none of those things nor ever will be because we are ‘finite’. Meanwhile, CS Lewis seemed to think an infinite good is what we desire; why desire it if it shall never be ours to have?

 

[Iron_Donkey]

God’s quality is without end…there is literally no limit to His beauty, amount of joy and He is utterly timeless…
Yet we are none of those things nor ever will be because we are ‘finite’. Meanwhile, CS Lewis seemed to think an infinite good is what we desire; why desire it if it shall never be ours to have?

It will be ours to have, in the sense that we will be united with Him in heaven, it just won’t be ours to be.

 

[Thomas_Jennings]

It will be ours to have, in the sense that we will be united with Him in heaven, it just won’t be ours to be.

I don’t quite understand- surely we cannot enjoy infinitude if we are not, ourselves, infinite?

 

[fhansen]

God’s quality is without end…there is literally no limit to His beauty, amount of joy and He is utterly timeless…
Yet we are none of those things nor ever will be because we are ‘finite’. Meanwhile, CS Lewis seemed to think an infinite good is what we desire; why desire it if it shall never be ours to have?

Even though we’re finite by nature we exist eternally simply because God created us and wills it to be so. But even then, to know or experience-to possess-His beauty and goodness is not ours to take although that is exactly what Adam attempted to do; there’s no greater goodness one can desire than to actually be God-and we’re naturally drawn to the greatest good. And according to our faith, God’s plan has always been for us to share in His goodness and the happiness it entails. But this is something only He can give, in a relationship with Him; it cannot be stolen or acquired apart from Him, it’s very source. We must partake of His nature; we must commune with Him. “Divinization” or “Theosis” has always been God’s plan for man. Jesus came to reconcile man, who is born in a sort of disordered or unjust state by virtue of being separated from and unaware of his creator, so this may take place. As St Athanasius said, “God became man so that man might become God”.