"Human beings ought to love and obey God as children properly love and obey their parents. Human beings ought to be in awe of God at least as much as, say, a first-year violin student is in awe of Itzhak Perlman. They ought to marvel at God's greatness and praise God's goodness.
"Failure to do these things -- let alone indulgence in outright scorn of God -- is sin because it runs counter to the way things are supposed to go. Godlessness is anti-shalom. Godlessness spoils the proper relation between human beings and their maker and savior."
-- Cornelius Plantinga, "Not the Way It's Supposed to Be" p.16 (Eerdmans 1995)
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