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Another student speculates that God may have created humans as parts of himself meant to bring him back, but the answer remains conceptually unclear.
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Purpose of existence
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A student answers Jiang's purpose-of-existence question by saying humans are meant to desire God, know him, become like him, and keep moving closer even in paradise.
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"Oh, yeah, maybe because the God just tried to come back. So he just hoped that people can bring him back because we're a..."
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"I think in the last few lines, he kind of says that we want to desire. Yeah. To desire him. So to know him..."
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"I guess to know him and be more like him or desire."
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"...all this? How do we get here? What is the purpose of existence? Okay? So there are four possible interpretations of this speech. And..."
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Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
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