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The Metaphysical Gap Between God and the Republic of the Universe

In the Anglican Church when the priest at morning prayer addresses the throne of grace he says all might he end everlasting God King of Kings Lord of Lords. There is a certain essential difference of kind what we might call an ontological difference so that God is God and all those creatures whether angels or men or other kinds of existence which God has created are not God there is this vast metaphysical gulf lying between the two domains. Many of the conflicts in our society arise from the fact that although we are running a republic many members of this republic believe or believe that they ought to believe that the universe is a monarchy. If there should be democracy in the kingdom of God that would seem to them the most

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