Calvinism - pagina 181

— CALVINISM AND

A

who

Normalist,

man, of

retains in his

of a

of creation,

possibiHty

a

sin as

SCIENCE.

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system the slightest

image of God

specific

in

of Christ in so far as he transcends

fall,

the human, of regeneration, as different from evolution,

of the Scriptures, as bringing us real oracles of God, is

an amphibious scholar and

But on the other to

creation

forfeits

the

name

of scientist.

who, as Abnormalist, transforms

side, he,

who does made in the

certain extent into evolution;

a

not see in the animal a protoplastic creature,

image of man, but man's origin; who surrenders the

moreover

over

original

every

way,

to

explain

Scriptures

as

the

the

all

to

tlie

human

must

data,

as

energy of

origin.

decidedly be banished

may

Parallel

lines

dif-

common intersect. You

which have nothing never

in

But what-

choose, whatever you are as a scientific

man, you have to be

it

consistently, not only in the

faculty of theology, but in all faculties

world- and life-view; world-picture

man.

unscientific

have to choose either the one or the other. ever you

in all this

the abnormal are two absolutely

startingpoints,

their

merely

of

Divine cause, as dominating

The nonnal and in

Regeneration,

result

from our ranks as an amphibious and

fering

and who

righteousness;

in

causes, instead of clinging with all the

soul

his

tries

and

Christ,

human

man

of

creation

from

;

in

your entire

in the full reflection of the

the

mirror

of your

whole

human

con-

sciousness.

Chronologically,

many

it

is

true,

we Abnormalists,

for

ages in succession, have been the speakers, hardly

ever having been challenged, while our opponents had scarcely no opportunity to dispute our principles. 12

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