In “The Weight of Glory”, CS Lewis powerfully argues that mankind is ultimately made for a transcendent reality; we are created with desires that “no natural happiness will satisfy.”

“if we are made for heaven, the desire for our proper place will be already in us, but not yet attached to the true object, and will even appear as the rival of that object. . . . . If a transtemporal, transfinite good is our real destiny, then any other good on which our desire fixes must be in some degree fallacious, must bear at best only a symbolical relation to what will truly satisfy.“

He goes on to conclude that the Scriptural imagery which reveals this ultimate reality to us has authority, coming to us from writers who were closer to God than we and that it has stood the test of time.