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There clearly seems to be something like a universal, rational ideal -- namelyideal—namely, being completely open in one's lines of communication, internal and external, with self and others, and acting accordingly. But, equally clearly, this ideal could not be fully realized by any human (or, more generally, fragmentary) being. Only God, being logically-ontologically unique as the one universal, nonfragmentary individual, could and necessarily does fully realize it, in that God's lines of communication with self and others (although both are and must be internal only) are always and fully open. This means that a human being can challenge God's valuations and actions only by implicitly repudiating her or his own idea of complete openness both to oneself and to all others. Also, to oppose her or his own valuations to God's would likewise be irrational, because, arguably, only God's aim and our aim as serving God's can relate to the future as such, all the future, which any rational aim must, in principle, relate to.

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