Such a guarantee, however, can be provided neither by the nonpersonal, empirical world nor by our fellow men—each of whom can only give questionable and precarious assurances to the other. It can only be given by the absolute Subject, God. It is when God addresses a conscious subject, tells him who he is and what he means to the eternal God of truth and shows him the purpose of his existence—that is, imparts a distinctive and divinely authorized mission—that we can say of a conscious subject that