So all humans have this equipment, I continue, including Jesus. And the equipment is made up of what Schleiermacher called God-consciousness and Self-consciousness. On the one hand, God-consciousness is that immediate, pre-reflexive awareness of the feeling of absolute dependence. Self-consciousness, alternatively, is our mediated, reflective perception of it. Now, our God-consciousness is supposed to order our Self-consciousness, but in fallen humanity, the opposite is true.21 We rarely encounter God in his self. We mostly encounter our own perceptions of God.
