“Yet, in our current state of rebellion against God, I know of no other single idea that is more offensive to Western men and women than this one. To realize that we are created by God and hence are both owned by and dependent upon him for everything, strikes at the very core of our illusions of independence and self-importance.”
-Scott J. Haffeman, The God of Promise and the Life of Faith: Understanding the Heart of the Bible (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2001), 31.
