does not meet us as empty vessels; we are not a tabula rasa, but are filled with all kinds of religious notions and ideas that must first be dismantled in order to make room for a true understanding of God. All individual preconceptions and constructions about God must fall away, for the “creative” delusions of man reach even so far as into the Christian teaching and conception of God.15 Therefore, giving God justice always means both things: to deny justice to oneself so that in the process “the