But sin, finding opportunity in the commandment, wrought in me all kinds of covetousness. When the Time Had Fully Come, p. 67. The Law exposes the heart of sin, its enmity towards and hatred of God. The sinner is not allowed by the law to live hidden from the light of the law and its exposure, so the law compels man to see that God knows he is a sinner who deserves the death penalty. The law reveals the penalty, but even more its words point to the greater power of grace.
Autonomy is a heady doctrine.
For Edward Carnell, his autonomous reason meant that all deities and revelations were under his judgment. His rationalism made him god over God. In every sphere of life and thought, autonomy invites anarchy. Van Til rightly observed that the choice is between autonomy and theonomy, self-law and God's law. In the twentieth century, churches have succumbed to autonomous spirituality, divorced from God's law on the one hand, and autonomous rationalism.