expressed in man's behavior, the character of the invisible
God made visible, imaged in man.
In the fall of man into sin, Adam rejected that
derivative relationship of grace/faith, and chose instead the
deceiving lie that he could be "like God," an independent,
autonomous self, and develop for himself a self-determined
standard of "good and evil." Such was the establishment of
humanism, morality and religion. Ever since the Fall man
has had to exercise the right he demanded, and has had to
devise and develop religion in order to fabricate a morality
wherewith to stabilize the chaos of his society and attempt
to draw man's attention away from himself, if even
temporarily, for the good of the whole. "Morality is of the
order of the fall." 19
After the Fall, we observe in the historical narratives of
the Old Testament that God begins to paint preliminary
"pictures" of how He will remedy man's predicament and
restore Himself to man. God picked the Jews to be His
"picture" people. He gave them the Law, inclusive of the
Ten Commandments, on Mt. Sinai. Judaism was a religion,
complete with morality, as all religion is. God established
the religion of Judaism to demonstrate the bankruptcy of all
religion, and the inability of man to keep any morality, i.e.
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