In the master's thesis, by analyzing the views of various authors on this subject, we presented the importance of human symbolism and symbolic language for the relationship with God. We are anew in the era where symbolic language plays a key role in interpersonal relationships and in the relationship with God. Getting into the vocabulary of symbols helps a person get in touch with God. We have found that man by nature is a symbolic and religious being that creates and can grasp the significance of symbols. The symbol captures the whole human being (feelings, thoughts, mind). With symbols and their language, a man can best express the deepest experience in his soul. God also uses the same kind of language to address man. He knows that man sees him through the senses - both in the texts of the Bible and at the same time through the symbols of the sacraments.
Because of the increasingly less Christian environment, a modern man finds it harder to enter a symbolic language, so he needs to come closer to the significance of the symbols. One of the goals of the master's work was also to break the significance of the symbols, both in the Bible and in the sacraments of the Church, since it helps a person to enter prayer more easily and, in this way, builds a relationship with God. We focused on the two main sacraments: the baptism and the Eucharist, and their basic symbols, which characterize their deepest essence.
The value of the master's work in practice is precisely that by reading its content, man will be able to enter the secret of the sacraments much easier and, consequently, in a relationship with God, which is our deepest craving.
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