Calvinism - pagina 69

CALVINISM AND RELIGION. found

They

in animals.

and

65

dog who adores

are seen in the

the Jionio sapiens developes out of

his

master,

the

chimpanzee, so religion only enters upon a higher Since that time religion has passed through

stage.

notes

the

loosening to pass

namely, finite.

as

on to what

and

entirely

whole theory

is

so

of

much (if

man was

that

you

will

the

maintains

perfect

relations to his

in

the

that

religion,

not as

outcome of

human,

me

allow

image of man,

first

God,

i.e.,

man was as

created

in

imbued by a pure

and consequently

explains

the

and absurd forms of religion found

low, imperfect

Paganism,

is

created after the image of God, never-

theless

and genuine

without

which,

to say so) animals were created after the

many

in

Unknown Inopposed by that

theory,

different

or the fact that

animal,

just as

engaged

unconscious feeling for the

the

this

the

it is

again considered a higher stage,

is

denying the preformation in

present

from the bands of Church and dogma,

itself

— Now,

other

At

of the gamut.

all

result of his creation but as

the

his

These low and

Fall.

be

imperfect

understood

as

a

process that leads from a lower to a higher, but as

a

—a

in

forms

of

lamentable the

are

religion

degeneration,

nature

true

religion

Now

in

of the

case,

possible

to

degeneration,

which,

makes the restoration of the

only

in

the soteriological way.

the choice between these two theories Calvinism

allows no hesitation. too,

not

before the

face

Standing himself, with

this question,

of God, the Calvinist was so im-

pressed with the hoHness of

God

that the consciousness

of guilt immediately lacerated his soul, and the terrible

nature of sin pressed on his heart as with an intolerable 5

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