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Sunday, March 4, 2007

From the pen of John Calvin

Taken from Institutes Of The Christian Religion ( Book 1, Ch. VI, 2)

"Hence it is not strange that those who are born in darkness become more and more hardened in their stupidity; because the vast majority , instead of confining themselves within due bounds by listening with docility to the Word, exult in their own vanity. If true religion is to beam upon us, our principle must be, that it is necessary to begin with heavenly teaching, and that it is impossible for any man to obtain even the minutest portion of right and sound doctrine without being a disciple of Scripture."

I fear we have too low a view of scripture (as I do). Let us be awakened to this understanding, that scripture has all authority, and is the only tool we have to judge experience and knowledge. Let us have our eyes unveiled to the supremacy of the divinely breathed, inerrant Word of God! To the glory of God alone will it lead us if we let it speak and we silence our own foolish desires that would distort it. :)

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