All creation culminates in humanity.
See this in light of incarnation of eternal Son as a human. We claim our dignity only as the same species in which God entered creation. A feature of this dignity is that no humiliation can extinguish it. Our destiny of fellowship with God forms the indispensable premise of the function of human dignity as the content of a supreme legal principle and a basis for individual human rights. Root of our misery lies in death's opposition to our destiny of fellowship with God.