Man’s sin is his attempt to renounce his creaturehood and to assert his independence of God, the Creator. The consequent judgement (in the ‘fall’ of man) establishes a break in the relationship between man and God. The world becomes a fallen world for fallen man to live in (see Romans 8:19–20). But just as a fallen creation still reflects God’s glory (Psalm 19:1; Romans 1:20) so man still reflects something of God’s image. One aspect of the mercy of God is that he reveals