Man is a free moral agent.
Seeing that man is capable of choosing that which is wrong, God must, to protect the rights of all, put man under moral obligation to choose that which is right. Now as long as a man obeys the moral law and fulfills his moral obligation to God and the universe, he is right with God. It is only when a man breaks the moral law that his relationship to the Lawmaker is severed. The only way, then, that a man can be right with God according to the law is to never violate that law. This means that all are law breakers and under the penalty of the law.