And therefore the world cannot be a source of salvation for man. Only God saves, and He saves the whole of humanity in Christ. To save means to liberate from radical evil. This evil is not only man's progressive decline with the passage of time and his final engulfment in the abyss of death. An even more radical evil is God's rejection of man, that is, eternal damnation as the consequence of man's rejection of God.
Damnation is the opposite of salvation.
Both are associated with the destiny of man to live eternally. Both presuppose the immortality of the human being. Temporal death cannot destroy man's destiny of eternal life. It is happiness that comes from union with God. In this way man's aspiration to truth is ultimately satisfied.