Saturday 21 May 2016

3. We are not to fashion God according to our own whim


 
God “is not a spectre or phantasm to be transformed according to anyone’s whim”

Do people today set up “their own false rites to God”?

What could those be:

1.       Social media 2. Multiple Credit cards 3. different internet personalities

Calvin suggests that if they worshipped the living God they would not dare even try and he illustrates this with reference to Galatians 4:8.  If this verse is the case then it does not matter if you set up one god or many that are not the true God.

Lactantius and Calvin agree: “no religion is genuine unless it is joined with the truth”.

How would we apply this proposal to those around the world who support radical fundamentalist beliefs of whatever tradition?

 

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