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CALVINISM AND SCIENCE.

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the abnormal; the miracle of regeneration; the miracle of the Scriptures; the miracle in the Christ, descending-

as

God

own

with his

life

into ours

and thus, owing to

;

this

regeneration of the abnormal, they continue to find the

norm not

ideal

Not

and

faith

systems

or

in the natural

science

you

if

but

but two

therefore,

two

choose,

the Triune God.

in

scientific elaborations,

are opposed to each other, eacJi having

Nor may

be said that

it

theology, for

we have

science, both of

is

it

scientific

ozvn faith.

its

here science which opposes

do with two absolute forms of

to

which claim the whole domain of human

knowledge, and both of which have a suggestion about

own

the supreme Being of their

Pantheism as well as Deism

ure for their world-view. is

as the point of depart-

a system about God, and without reserve the entire

modern theology Normalists.

And

the Normalists

finds

its

home

finally these

in the science of the

two

scientific

systems of

and the Abnormalists are not

relative

opponents, walking together half way, and, further on, peaceably suffering one another to choose different paths, but they are both

in earnest, disputing

domain of

the zvhole

life,

with one another

and they cannot

the constant endeavor to pull

down

to the

desist

from

ground the

entire edifice of their respective controverted assertions, all

the

rest.

If

supports included, upon which their assertions

they

show on both in

did

not

sides, that

try

this,

they would thereby

they did not honestly believe

their point of departure, that they

combatants, primordial tmity

ofi

and that they

demand

conception.

did

not

were no serious understand

the

of science, which of course claims

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