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When fallen man therefore says or presupposes that he is intelligible in and of himself apart from his relation to the triune God of Scripture, then he does not know himself for what he is. When such a man asks whether he is created in the image of God, his question is, in one sense, meaningless. Yet, in the last analysis, it is worse than meaningless. It is an insult to God. A child who asks whether his parents, with whom he has lived from birth, are his parents is not neutral in relation to his parents. He insults them. It is only as a covenant-breaker that man asks whether the triune God of Scripture exists.