I can live any way I please. We can continue to live in sin. This is the heart and core of evolutionary humanism. No, it is an ancient lie. The most insidious lie on the scene today.
Man is the highest creature in the universe.
God will not intervene in my life. I am not accountable to God. I don't have to answer to a higher judge. There is no purpose for the universe. Peter responds to their argument with three concrete truths.