to which we come with thinking, reasoning, or something like that. it’s the person with whom i can be in a relationship, i trust this person, love and accept his love.
and the life. when jesus said “i am the life,” he replied to one of the basic human longing, and that is longing for life. when god created a man, he gave him to eat from the tree of life in the middle of the garden.
the focus is therefore god and the human desire for life and the eternal. even after sin, when man already smelled death, the longing has stayed. he wanted to save himself, even at the expense 