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Charity is complete

The first letter to the Church of the Corinthians teaches us that all the gifts are subordinated to Charity: "Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled, where there is knowledge it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears "1 Corinthians 13: 8-10.
This passage in the first letter to the Corinthians is making an allusion to the second coming, the parousia, Jesus Christ represents the perfect, the complete. Everything is subordinated to Charity because love is the most complete, when the perfect comes only Charity will remain.
Something is perfect or complete when it can not be surpassed in its own gender, the gifts are complete, example the constancy, the mercy, the counsel are perfections; justice is not a perfection because equity completes justice, when justice is not enough to solve, the equity is recourse to. The Kingdom of God in this sense is the domain, the empire of divine perfections, is the empire of mercy, the empire of perseverance, that is the culture of excellence.
The Letter to the Corinthians tells us that Jesus Christ is "son of man", Jesus is the model of man, Jesus Christ is the "complete", meaning that Christ represents the perfections of God, the divine gifts and attributes, in this consists the mystery of the Kingdom of God.
The Kingdom of God is the man who becomes "son of God", that is, the man who seeks the perfections of God; and in the opposite sense, is God who becomes "son of man", that is to say Jesus who personifies the gifts of God. Jesus is the perfect, the complete, like Charity.

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