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Wiki MarkupBultmann characteristically stresses that we as human beings are temporal beings and that God meets us in time -- – in the time constituting our own lives. Thus he can claim to speak, not of an idea of God, but of "_dem lebendigen Gott, in des sen Händen unsere Zeit steht und der uns in unserer Zeit begegnet_" (204 \ [119\]).

In "Die Krisis des Glaubens," however, he speaks of God -- more exactly, of the referent of "God" -- as "die Macht, die des Zeitlichen und Ewigen mächtig ist" (GV 2: 3). In another place, of course, he still sharply distinguishes God from temporality, or, at least, "die Geschichtlichkeit," but speaks as though God could be simply identified with "die Ewigkeit" (GV 4: 106). But this only makes the statement in which he speaks of God's power over the eternal as well as the temporal all the more striking.

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