Calvin said the below in his Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book First, Chapter 4. Apparently little has changed from the beginning of time. Maybe we should just call it Apple Madness. And they all have it, including covid murderers and transhuman murders. Calvin has a way of not mincing words ... plain spoken and s…
Calvin said the below in his Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book First, Chapter 4. Apparently little has changed from the beginning of time. Maybe we should just call it Apple Madness. And they all have it, including covid murderers and transhuman murders. Calvin has a way of not mincing words ... plain spoken and straight up. The Wokies would be hard put to refute him. When I first read it, I was astonished. Not by what he said, but he said it in his time ... or could have said it in any age.
4. The wicked never willingly come into the presence of God. Hence their hypocrisy. Hence, too, their sense of Deity leads to no good result. 1. But though experience testifies that a seed of religion is divinely sown in all, scarcely one in a hundred is found who cherishes it in his heart, and not one in whom it grows to maturity so far is it from yielding fruit in its season. Moreover, while some lose themselves in superstitious observances, and others, of set purpose, wickedly revolt from God, the result is that, in regard to the true knowledge of him, all are so degenerate, that in no part of the world can genuine godliness be found. In saying that some fall away into superstition, I mean not to insinuate that their excessive absurdity frees them from guilt; for the blindness under which they labour is almost invariably accompanied with vain pride and stubbornness. Mingled vanity and pride appear in this, that when miserable men do seek after God, instead of ascending higher than themselves as they ought to do, they measure him by their own carnal stupidity, and, neglecting solid inquiry, fly off to indulge their curiosity in vain speculation. Hence, they do not conceive of him in the character in which he is manifested, but imagine him to be whatever their own rashness has devised. This abyss standing open, they cannot move one footstep without rushing headlong to destruction. With such an idea of God, nothing which they may attempt to offer in the way of worship or obedience can have any value in his sight, because it is not him they worship, but, instead of him, the dream and figment of their own heart. This corrupt procedure is admirably described by Paul, Rom 1:22
I’m just a little country girl. I know Calvin is a great favorite of intellectuals. And I spent time in my spiritual journey in 3 different Presbyterian camps, but I just get a headache when I try to follow his reasoning. I’m sorry, I’ll have to leave his theology to you big brains.
Don't worry it. Regular schools, denominations have got us all screwed up. They got us thinking that we have to be super-smart about EVERYTHING when all that is required is to learn what you can, a little bit at a time. Education is not all or nothing. It is cumulative over time. For example, if you get just one new thing you did not know before, it's worth knowing that one thing. And you are a big winner.
As to Presbyterians, we are nominally Presbyterian and almost all the Presbyterians are off the rails today. We cannot even find a proper Reformed church locally. We instead have to Internet church.
Okay! Life is normally not all wrong or all right. But then again, it's what is missing, what is never seen, this is what does the most serious damage. The big secret is that most churches in the Collective West are either no longer Christian, or only onion skin thin nominally Christian. In effect, the churches have been secularized. And it is not obvious straight off that this is so because it is what is missing.
The first book that turned my head was the Institutes of Biblical Law by R. J. Rushdoony. I knew something was wrong with the churches but I could not put my finger on it. And many times, it is not what is in view that does the greater damage. It is what is kept out of sight, purposely hidden. The Elites do this all the time. That is why it was against the law once upon a time to own a Bible if you were not of the clergy, this during and before the Protestant Reformation. And if you were caught with one, you could be burned for it depending upon circumstance.
In any event, I appreciate hearing from you. And by the way, country girls are tip top.
I used to live in the country. Country girls, many of them, are very smart. And if you were not very, very smart ... I doubt you would be reading Coffee and Covid, one of the tip-top Substacks every.
Actually, I’m probably not nearly as smart as I think I am. I’ve just asked God to use me. And He really does know it all!
Thank you for throwing out a little love for us country girls…it’s not that easy to fit in and my stories are so far from the norm, I know people often think I’m lying. But I’m not!
Willing Spirit,
Calvin said the below in his Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book First, Chapter 4. Apparently little has changed from the beginning of time. Maybe we should just call it Apple Madness. And they all have it, including covid murderers and transhuman murders. Calvin has a way of not mincing words ... plain spoken and straight up. The Wokies would be hard put to refute him. When I first read it, I was astonished. Not by what he said, but he said it in his time ... or could have said it in any age.
4. The wicked never willingly come into the presence of God. Hence their hypocrisy. Hence, too, their sense of Deity leads to no good result. 1. But though experience testifies that a seed of religion is divinely sown in all, scarcely one in a hundred is found who cherishes it in his heart, and not one in whom it grows to maturity so far is it from yielding fruit in its season. Moreover, while some lose themselves in superstitious observances, and others, of set purpose, wickedly revolt from God, the result is that, in regard to the true knowledge of him, all are so degenerate, that in no part of the world can genuine godliness be found. In saying that some fall away into superstition, I mean not to insinuate that their excessive absurdity frees them from guilt; for the blindness under which they labour is almost invariably accompanied with vain pride and stubbornness. Mingled vanity and pride appear in this, that when miserable men do seek after God, instead of ascending higher than themselves as they ought to do, they measure him by their own carnal stupidity, and, neglecting solid inquiry, fly off to indulge their curiosity in vain speculation. Hence, they do not conceive of him in the character in which he is manifested, but imagine him to be whatever their own rashness has devised. This abyss standing open, they cannot move one footstep without rushing headlong to destruction. With such an idea of God, nothing which they may attempt to offer in the way of worship or obedience can have any value in his sight, because it is not him they worship, but, instead of him, the dream and figment of their own heart. This corrupt procedure is admirably described by Paul, Rom 1:22
daverkb,
I’m just a little country girl. I know Calvin is a great favorite of intellectuals. And I spent time in my spiritual journey in 3 different Presbyterian camps, but I just get a headache when I try to follow his reasoning. I’m sorry, I’ll have to leave his theology to you big brains.
Don't worry it. Regular schools, denominations have got us all screwed up. They got us thinking that we have to be super-smart about EVERYTHING when all that is required is to learn what you can, a little bit at a time. Education is not all or nothing. It is cumulative over time. For example, if you get just one new thing you did not know before, it's worth knowing that one thing. And you are a big winner.
As to Presbyterians, we are nominally Presbyterian and almost all the Presbyterians are off the rails today. We cannot even find a proper Reformed church locally. We instead have to Internet church.
Okay! Life is normally not all wrong or all right. But then again, it's what is missing, what is never seen, this is what does the most serious damage. The big secret is that most churches in the Collective West are either no longer Christian, or only onion skin thin nominally Christian. In effect, the churches have been secularized. And it is not obvious straight off that this is so because it is what is missing.
The first book that turned my head was the Institutes of Biblical Law by R. J. Rushdoony. I knew something was wrong with the churches but I could not put my finger on it. And many times, it is not what is in view that does the greater damage. It is what is kept out of sight, purposely hidden. The Elites do this all the time. That is why it was against the law once upon a time to own a Bible if you were not of the clergy, this during and before the Protestant Reformation. And if you were caught with one, you could be burned for it depending upon circumstance.
In any event, I appreciate hearing from you. And by the way, country girls are tip top.
I used to live in the country. Country girls, many of them, are very smart. And if you were not very, very smart ... I doubt you would be reading Coffee and Covid, one of the tip-top Substacks every.
Actually, I’m probably not nearly as smart as I think I am. I’ve just asked God to use me. And He really does know it all!
Thank you for throwing out a little love for us country girls…it’s not that easy to fit in and my stories are so far from the norm, I know people often think I’m lying. But I’m not!