Calvin's Institutes I.V.13-15
Calvin continues in the same vein:
• In spite of man’s intentions, the Holy Spirit rejects all man made attempts at religion
• Human opinion is the mother of error. Therefore God must bear witness to himself from heaven.
• The witness from creation fails because of man’s corruption.
• But men are without excuse since the fault is in them.
What is clear so far is that Calvin’s thought is based on this premise: That man is made for worship of the one true God. Man is given ample help in seeing and understanding who God is. The tragedy of the human condition is that his corruption interferes with his knowledge of God and thereby man makes up alternative modes of worship. This idolatry is what offends God.
Saturday, February 21, 2004
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