The Image of God in the Human Being or the Identity of Man as a Person

Man by his being is par excellence a dynamic organism, towards the eternal. Man is fundamentally penetrated by the mystery of love that pushes people from the inside towards a natural communion, which reveals the personal and conscious existence in time and space, incorporated in an indissociable psychosomatic unit, with immeasurable psychic depth; free, master, rational, creator of holiness (man sanctifies the place), knower, etc. These are the attributes that eloquently reveal the true constitution of man. The eternal value of the human person, the uniqueness of his being realized through the unity of contrasts that man represents as body and soul, shows that the person is not brought into the world by God in isolation, as a uniform abstract achievement, separated from nature, from being. The person presents himself in the complex context of the bonds of love and care manifested towards himself and towards other persons different from him, but who share the same common nature in which the divine presence mysteriously dwells