What paganism and the Hebrews, too, maintained was that to see God is to die, or at least to become blind, dumb, etc. Christianity expresses ethically the task to 'die to the world' as the condition for seeing God.
In both situations there is the expression of majesty - that we cannot see God in the same sense as we see everything else, we cannot go on living and to see Peter and Paul, and God also. No, to see God (immediately) is to be set in pausa (the end). And ethically the task is to die to the world in order to see God.
There are only two views of life which correspond to the duality that is man: animal and spirit.
According to the one the task is to live, to enjoy life, and to put your energy into this.
The other view is: the meaning of life is to die.
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