510. On the usual revisionary paradigm...

1. On the usual revisionary paradigm, one believes with Jesus in God. In this sense, Jesus may be said to be the ground of faith but not its object, which is God alone.

2. But for classical Christianity, the ground of faith becomes, in its own way, the object thereof; for one doesn't merely believe with Jesus in God; one believes in God decisively through Jesus.

3. Thus with respect to the question of God, Jesus is not an authority, not even the highest, or primary authority; rather Jesus is the primal source of authority; more exactly, the explicit primal source -- and, more exactly still, the explicit primal ontic source.

1980; rev. 30 August 2003