Calvinism a life-system - pagina 181

CALVINISM AND SCIENCE.

A

who

Normalist,

man, of

retains in his

of creation,

possibility

sin as a

of a

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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 creation

name

the animal a protoplastic creature,

in

of scientist.

who does made in the

extent into evolution;

certain

a

to

not see

forfeits the

who, as Abnormalist, transforms

side, he,

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

moreover

his

in

original

every

way,

all

merely

of

result

to the Divine cause, as

dominating

human

decidedly be banished

must

data,

The normal and in

Regeneration,

explain

as

from our ranks as an amphibious and fering

and who

righteousness; to

causes, instead of clinging with all the energy of

soul

over

tries

and the Scriptures as the

Christ,

human

man

of

creation

origin.

Parallel

never

lines

may

in

But what-

choose, whatever you are as a scientific

man, you have to be

consistently, not only in the

it

faculty of theology, but in

world- and life-view; in the world-picture

dif-

common intersect. You

which have nothing

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

man.

unscientific

the abnormal are two absolutely

startingpoints,

their

in all this

from

the

all

faculties

full

mirror

;

in

your entire

reflection of the

of your

whole

human

con-

sciousness.

Chronologically,

rhany ages

it

is

in succession,

true,

we Abnormalists,

for

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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