Reverance for the Mystery

Something from Christianity Today, February, 2009. John Calvin still have something to say to us after 500 years.

RE-FORMED
Reverence for the Mystery
God does not have to answer to us for his ways.
John Calvin with Knox Bucer-Beza posted 3/03/2009 09:33AM

In a universe of electrons and selfish genes, blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won't find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice. The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference.

Richard Dawkins, scientist

I believe there is God's justice in action in what's going on here [in the current economic collapse] and we haven't seen the end of it. … We're going toward a one-world bank and a one-world monetary system, and if you believe the Word of God and you read Revelations … you will see clearly what's being spelt out, and we are in the end times.

James Bidgood, Australian MP

In pondering God's rule over human affairs,
we must avoid two common errors.

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