elects the cross of Golgotha as His kingly throne. He elects the tomb in the garden as the scene of His being as the living God.”25 Barth was not afraid to call the divine event on the cross the true justification of God in the face of the evil and suffering in the world of human beings: the true theodicy! And the election of rejected human beings is nothing other than the justification of the sinner! Belief in predestination thus means “faith in the non-rejection of man, or disbelief in his rejection.