Pink sets out to answer the question of “What is the cause of the current widespread lawlessness (in our lands)? For every effect there is a cause, and the character of the effect usually intimates the nature of the cause. Where there is no fear of God, we must not expect there will be much fear of man. “Why is there so much disrespect for Divine Law?” He concludes that past utterances of ‘Christian teachers’ have contributed to the situation which now confronts us.