Such is the position as between man and man qua man. But between God and man there is an eternal essential qualitative difference which cannot at the risk of presumption be allowed to disappear in the blasphemous thought that though certainly different in the transitory moment of time so that man ought to obey and to pray God in this life nevertheless the difference will in eternity vanish in an essential identity so that in eternity God and man like king and servant become equals. Between God and man then there is and remains an eternal essential qualitative difference. The paradox- religious relationship (which quite rightly cannot be thought but only believed) appears when God appoints a particular man to divine authority in relation be it carefully noted to that which lod has entrusted to him.