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Critique of Calvin

January 14th, 2006
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Link: Critique of Calvin.

A quote from a good summary article exposing more of Calvin’s, and hence, Calvinism’s errors….some claim that Calvin did not embrace the philosophical position that the finite is incapable of the infinite, but here is what Calvin said, and you can read more of this analysis by following the link above.

  But it pleased him that Christ be made like his brethren in all things except sin [Heb. 4:15; cf.ch. 2:17].  What is the nature of our flesh?  Is it not something that has its own fixed dimension, is contained in a place, is touched, is seen?  And why (they say) cannot God make the same flesh occupy many and divers places, be contained in no place, so as to lack measure and form?  Madman, why do you demand that God’s power make flesh to be and not to be flesh at the same time!  It is as if you insisted that he make light to be both light and darkness at the same time!  But he wills light to be light; darkness, darkness; and flesh, flesh.  Indeed, when he pleases he will turn darkness into light and light into darkness; but when you require that light and darkness not differ, what else are you doing than perverting the order of God’s wisdom?  Flesh must therefore be flesh; spirit, spirit — each thing in the state and condition wherein God created it.  But such is the condition of flesh that it must subsist in one definite place, with its own size and form.  With this condition Christ took flesh, giving to it, as Augustine attests, incorruption and glory, and not taking away from it nature and truth.

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  1. Eric Phillips
    January 19th, 2006 at 16:23 | #1

    …but corruptibility is part of the nature of flesh, so how can God give it incorruption, John?

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