“are not for us unwritten pages or unknown quantities.”50 All things have their being in God’s gracious eternal decision, and no one or no thing has its being outside or independent of this decision. In fact, there can be no abstract way of understanding terms such as “time” and “eternity,” no way that does not reflect the reality of God’s decision in Jesus Christ. Consequently, “we have to say that eternity bears the name Jesus Christ”; Jesus Christ is real, eschatological time.51 Barth, in other