By Schubert Ogden
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To say, as Luther does, that God does not exist for our sakes, but we exist for God's sake is not to deny that God unfailingly acts for our sakes, even as we are given and called to act for God's. It is simply to be consistent in affirming that any symmetry between God and ourselves necessarily rests on a more fundamental asymmetry – -- or, in SK's phrase, an "infinite qualitative difference."
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