Kierkegaard claims that without evidence, one cannot have divine authority. To begin, divine authority is when only one has the power to command or influence others to do orders of sorts. Moving on, Kierkegaard believes his claim about not having divine authority without evidence by analyzing his own given example of how a king is able to prove his authority, but not God. This is through the reason that God is not able to prove his authority through his chosen apostle, for Kierkegaard writes, "...God cannot help his ambassador as a king can who gives him an accompaniment of soldiers or policemen, or his ring, or his letter in his handwriting which everybody recognizes--in short, God cannot be at men's service with a sensible certitude of that