Mark Horne

Socrates said, “Know thyself,” but Biblical religion tells us that we cannot know ourselves. We cannot walk by sight and must walk by faith. Only God can understand human beings, and we must trust Him. To be sure, in a way we can come to know ourselves, but only as we know God. But that self-knowledge is never full, because there is always more of God to know.

The Calvinistic gnostic, however, will not walk by faith. He must have it all nailed down, and when the Federal Vision conversation said, “Let’s be careful. There’s a lot of mystery here,” the gnostics went on the warpath.

The year 2009 is a big John Calvin year. You’ll see lots of monuments raised to Calvin, but if you look carefully, you’ll see that those who believe as Calvin did are pilloried and crucified by modern “Calvinists.” Calvin and the other men of the Reformation got their theology from the Bible; but the modern gnostics get their theology from Confessions and Catechisms, which they distort almost beyond recognition. If there is anything that the so-called “Federal Vision” made crystal clear and transparent to all onlookers, it is that fact.

Read all or Jim Jordan’s post at Reformed Gnosticism Strikes Again « Biblical Horizons.

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