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Bultmann speaks of Jesus as having demanded decision for his person as the bearer of the word of God (= der Träger des Wortes Gottes). He also says that Jesus claimed to be God's messenger with the final, decisive word (= Gottes Bote mit dem letzten, entscheidenden Wort).

But both of these fonnulations formulations are like my saying, more formally, that Jesus decisively re-presented the meaning of strictly ultimate reality for us. That is, they may be understood either as empirical-historical statements that require to be verified in the way of such statements generally, or as existential-historical statements that require a correspondingly different kind of verification.

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