Consequently, every creature bears within it the sign of the original and fundamental gift. It indicates the one who gives and the one who receives the gift, and also the relationship that is established between them. Now, this relationship emerges in the account of creation at the moment of the creation of man. In the narrative of the creation of the visible world, the giving has a meaning only with regard to man. The biblical account of creation offers us sufficient reasons to understand and interpret in this way.
Creation is a gift, because man appears in it.
He is capable of answering the Creator with the language of this understanding. Interpreting the narrative of creation with this language, it can be deduced from it that creation constitutes the fundamental and original gift. Man appears in creation as the one who received the world as a gift, and it can also be said that the world received man as a gift. At this point, we must interrupt our analysis. Later we will have to make precisely this dimension of the gift the subject of a deep analysis in order to understand also the meaning of the human body in its rightful extent.