Far from being a measure of our maturity

Far from being a measure of our maturity

From DA Carson:

One of the most important entailments of the doctrine of creation is this: it grounds all human responsibility. The theme repeatedly recurs in the Bible, sometimes explicitly, sometimes by implication. To take but one example, John’s gospel opens by declaring that everything that was created came into being by agency of God’s word, that word became flesh in Jesus Christ (John 1:2-3,14). But this observation sets the stage for a devastating indictment: when this word came into the world, and even though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him (John 1:10). God made us to “image” himself; he made us for his own glory. For us to imagine ourselves as autonomous is, far from being a measure of our maturity, the supreme mark of our rebellion, and the flag of our suppression of the truth (Rom.1).