This will not necessarily keep him from sinning, but at least it shows him the folly of acting against the will of a Supreme Being upon Whom he is dependent not only for his life but also for his living. In the absence of this vision man's yardstick of human behavior can only be himself. He begins to act, in other words, as if he himself were the center to which all things and all actions must be referred. Convenience becomes the touchstone and virtue ceases when it hurts. Absolute standards of right and of wrong no longer exist because they lack a final and supreme Guarantor.
Truth becomes relative.
A lie is always justified. Double-thinking is justifiable whenever convenient. Vice becomes acceptable when self-interest demands. This then is the total believer's notion of God. God is the truth from Whom all the truths that we discover draw their meaning.