Every individual has gone astray in his or her own way (see Rom. 3:8–20). The more arduously a person attempts to live up to the moral standard dictated by conscience, the more frustrating the effort becomes and the greater that individual’s awareness of his moral/spiritual shortcomings.10 Job, one of the most righteous men who ever lived, concluded that unless there were someone to intercede between God and himself, someone to make amends for his moral failings, he had no hope, no destiny (see Job