If we take seriously Luther’s definition of what is really wrong with human beings in sin as our failure to fear, love, and trust God above all things, as he says in the exposition of the Ten Commandments in the Small Catechism, then we see that beneath or behind our disobedience against each specific commandment from two through ten lies the fundamental rejection of God, the doubt that defies God, the failure to “fear, love, and trust in him above all things.” Any action of the law that deprives