When later, she reproached him for his evils, his answer was that none had a right to judge him except himself. This is the logic of autonomy. Every man becomes his own god and universe, and no one else has the right to judge him. Antinomianism is related to this quest for autonomy because God's law is, among other things, a criterion for judgment. Because there is no autonomy in these spheres, or any other, there is no immunity from judgment.
Autonomy means deliverance from judgment.
It also means autonomy, ostensibly, from God. The autonomy of reason from God is basic to rationalism. Both its concepts of reason and God are false. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound. Sin properly manifests itself in its very nature whenever the law raises its voice.