Whoever says You does not have something; he has nothing. But he stands in relation. - Martin Buber

The only possible relationship with God is to address him and to be addressed by him, here and now — or, as Buber puts it, in the present.

The concept of guilt is found most powerfully developed even in the most primitive communal forms which we know: … the man is guilty who violates one of the original laws which dominate the society and which are mostly derived from a divine founder; the boy who is accepted into the tribal community and learns its laws, which bind him thenceforth, learns to promise; this promise is often given under the sign of death, which is symbolically carried out on the boy, with a symbolical rebirth.

Spirit is not in the I but between I and You.