One contemporary Pauline scholar uses a particularly arresting phrase to describe the Christian experience of salvation: it leads to the life of "erotic exuberance." In order that this striking phrase not be misunderstood, I should emphasize that "erotic" here does not refer narrowly to sexual feeling, as it commonly does in the modern world, but means what eros meant in ancient Greek: the desire for union. Erotic exuberance refers to the joyful experience in which our estrangement is overcome and we are reunited with "what is" — with the world and with the one in whom we and the world live and move and have our being. Freedom, joy, peace, and love — a life marked by these is, it seems to me, enormously attractive. Who would not want this?
— Marcus J. Borg, The God We Never Knew