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But be this as it may, the more I've continued to reflect on Paul's statements in these passages, the more I've been struck by his assigning to God in Rom 11:36 the role or function as medium that he so carefully assigns to Jesus Christ in 1 Cor 8:6, as distinct from the roles or functions of God the Father as the primal source of all things and the final end for which we exist. Whatever his own intention in doing this may have been, I find it entirely apt. In fact, it serves to make the very point I seek to make by distinguishing (1) the being of God in itself from the meaning of God for us; and (2) the meaning of God for us as the implicit primal ontic source authorizing , -- entitling and empowering -- our authentic existence from Jesus Christ as the explicit primal ontic source of the same authorization. Just as we are who we are authentically through our understanding appropriation through faith of the primal authorization by God through Jesus Christ, so all things are what they are through that same primal source whether or not they understand it even implicitly.

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