Calvin: naturalist atheists

Friday, July 17, 2020
Meditation:
    They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
    —Romans 1:25 (NIV)
Quotation:
    At this day... the earth sustains on her bosom many monster minds, minds which are not afraid to employ the seed of Deity deposited in human nature as a means of suppressing the name of God. Can anything be more detestable than this madness in man, who, finding God a hundred times both in his body and his soul, makes his excellence in this respect a pretext for denying that there is a God? He will not say that chance has made him different from the brutes; ... but, substituting Nature as the architect of the universe, he suppresses the name of God.
    ... John Calvin (1509-1564), The Institutes of the Christian Religion, v. I [1559], tr. John Allen, Presbyterian Board of Publication and Sabbath-School Work, 1921, I.v.4, p. 60 (see the book)
    See also Ps. 14:1-3; Job 12:7-25; Jer. 18:13-15; Rom. 1:18-25
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You have shined the light of truth before us. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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