We like to think (as we saw in chapter 3) we are all we need to figure out how to flourish in the world. Adam’s original sin was a proud intellectual self-sufficiency, what J. I. Packer describes as the “ability to solve all life’s problems without reference to the word of God.”3 True faith, argues Packer, means giving up the notion of intellectual autonomy and recognizing that “true wisdom begins with a willingness to treat God’s Word as possessing final authority.”4 Man is not the measure of all things. God is.
