"Why do people choose the substitute over God himself? Probably the most important reason is that it obviates accountability to God. We can meet idols on our own terms because they are our own creations. They are safe, predictable, and controllable; they are, in Jeremiah's colorful language, the 'scarecrows in a cornfield' (10:5). They are portable and completely under the user's control. They offer nothing like the threat of a God who thunders from Sinai and whose providence in this world so often appears to us to be incomprehensible and dangerous . . . [People] need face only themselves. That is the appeal of idolatry."
- David F. Wells
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Two Calvinists, straight up.
Two Sovereigntists. One is an Arminian-Sovereigntist, the other a Calvin-Soveriegntist. I can't tell you which one Blo is, but I'm the latter.
One "no flag planted in the ground but leaning towards" Calvinist.
One former Calvinist-but-troubled-by-the-problem-of-evil-and-the-Augustinian-concept-of-Original-Sin but still on the Sovereignty train.
One aBloist.
