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“The simplest reason Christians have to unlearn the story of the autonomous individual, therefore, is this: It makes the story of everything into a story about myself. "Everything" is finally drawn into the self that I take myself to be. Whatever is not of my-self is subject to myself. I am the ruler not only of myself but of all things in relation to myself. Which is to say that I have become God. The sovereignty that is proper to God is repositioned within the individual human. I am the God of my life, I am self-sufficient, I decide who I am, and nothing can intrude on my freedom to be exactly this self-ruled, self-sufficient, self-unto-itself. This is idolatry of the most basic kind: the inversion of the Imago. No longer does God image himself in me; I have taken God's image and turned myself into God. I am the God who images myself in the world.” - page 90

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