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Here is a famous quote from Thomas Aquinas on R.C. Sproul's book regarding the true state of man.

"Aquinas replied that we see people all around us who are feverishly seeking for purpose in their lives, pursuing happiness, and looking for relief from guilt to silence the pangs of conscience. We see people searching for the things that we know can be found only in Christ, but we make the gratuitous assumption that because they are seeking the benefits of God, they must therefore be seeking God. That is the very dilemma of fallen creatures: we want the things that only God can give us, but we do not want him. We want peace but not the Prince of Peace. We want purpose but not the sovereign purposes decreed by God. We want meaning found in ourselves but not in his rule over us. We see desperate people, and we assume they are seeking for God, but they are not seeking for God. I know that because God says so. No one seeks after God"

Thomas Aquinas' understanding comes from Romans 3 and Psalm 14 of course.  The eternal life is not something to pursue, but it is simply a state of your soul.  Nothing ever cease to exist.  Whether you have eternal life in heaven or you have ethernal death in hell, your existence is eternal.

The question we should be asking is "are you pursuing what our Lord Jesus Christ can give you, the eternal life?" or "are you pursuing to be with our Lord Jesus Christ eternally because he is the source of "the way, the truth, and the life."  As we study scriptures, we realize that God reveals about himself and truths through the holy scripture.  He wants you do KNOW about him instead of feel about him.  When we truly know revealed truths about God and revealed truths about ourselves, we deeply repent and desire to be with "my Lord and my God," Jesus Christ.