Woodfin proposes that when we are connected to Reality do our lives become real or authentic. He proposes once again a Christologically centered ontology arguing that we are only rightly related to Realty, according to the Christian worldview, through a relationship with our Creator and Redeemer.
Once again, Woodfin contends that the experiential appropriation of Reality which manifests itself experientially in our lives in the form of authenticity or realness (which ethicists would call the "summum bonum" of life or "the good life) validates the Christian worldview.
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An ontological belief in a Christ who is indeed God, not only in his revelation but also in his being must therefore be capable of creating in experience a quality of life which corresponds to that which the Christian holds as theologically valid in his understanding of God as real.
Woodfin's conclusion is a philosophical affirmation biblical statement from Christ, "I have come that you might have life and life abundantly." Philosophically speaking, life abundantly is found in an ontologic connection with Ultimate Reality which manifests itself in a life lived authentically.
