John Calvin's Labyrinth

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Hey, that's a Phoenix reformed Baptist Church. Did we just put that in there? That's been there for a while, huh? In fact, how long ago did you make that thing? That was like a bazillion years ago. I think was like 2001 2002 maybe.

So every dividing line starts off with a mention of the Phoenix reformed Baptist Church. Phoenix reform. Okay, just checking. I was a checker. Yeah reform Baptist. So I was I was a wacky Baptist eight years ago.

All right, hey welcome to the dividing line. Some of you've read the blog know what I'm talking about. I still I gotta admit I just cannot conceive how anybody Can claim to and and and we've verified has my books wherein at the beginning of the books it talks about the Phoenix reformed Baptist Church and My debates where and I talk about being a reformed Baptist and listens to the dividing line.

Which begins the discussion of my being a reformed Baptist and then go hey, he's in danger of becoming a reformed Baptist. Which I did 20 years ago. Okay. Well, hey. It makes There there you go. I died.

I just some things leave me completely befuddled and I don't even begin to understand them. So that's okay. I don't claim to have all knowledge or be able to figure out all mysteries. Speaking of which I want to start off the program today with I think a rather important discussion and I think it's a needed corrective for many of us.

I know it's something I need to think of fairly frequently. I Would like to begin by reading you some some material. I know it's not normally the most exciting thing to do. But if you listen, I think you might find it to be useful.

Suppose we ponder how slippery is the fall of the human mind into forgetfulness of God? How great the tendency of every kind of error how great the lust to fashion constantly new and artificial religions.

Then we may perceive how necessary was such written proof of the heavenly doctrine. That it should neither perish through forgetfulness nor vanish through error nor be corrupted by the audacity of men.

It is therefore clear that God has provided the assistance of the word for the sake of all those To whom he has been pleased to give useful instruction. Because he foresaw that his likeness imprinted upon the most beautiful form of the universe would be insufficiently effective.

Hence, we must strive onward by this straight path if we seriously aspire to the pure contemplation of God. We must come I say to the word where God is truly and vividly described to us from his works.

While these very works are appraised not by our depraved judgment, but by the rule of eternal truth. If we turn aside from the word as I have just now said though we may strive with strenuous haste yet.

Since we have got off the track we shall never reach the goal. For we should so reason that the splendor of the divine countenance which even the Apostle calls Unapproachable is for us like an inexplicable labyrinth.

Unless we are conducted into it by the thread of the word. So that it is better to limp along this path than to dash with all speed outside it. David very often therefore teaching that we ought to banish superstitions from the earth so that pure religion may flourish represented.

God is regnant. Now he means by the word regnant not the power with which he is endowed and which he exercises in governing the whole of nature. But the doctrine by which he asserts his lawful sovereignty.

For errors can never be uprooted from human hearts until true knowledge of God is planted therein. Now I want to focus on this particular line. For we should so reason that the splendor the divine countenance which even the Apostle calls unapproachable is for us like an inexplicable labyrinth unless We are conducted into it by the thread of the word.

I love that picture the picture of a person going into a labyrinth a massive maze a Maze out of which you will not come unless you have some kind of guidance that will constantly frustrate you. But if you have that thread to follow if you have that guidance to follow Then you can make your way into the labyrinth this of course I'm reading from the Institute's the Christian religion by John Calvin and of course it is 2009 and he was born in 1509 the 500th anniversary of the birth of John Calvin and Very early on in the Institute's this is book 1 chapter 6 section 3 if you're looking for it.

He introduces a concept that I think for many in the modern world is somewhat difficult and possibly even offensive and What I mean by that is Cal one of the main differences in my thinking between John Calvin and Jonathan Edwards was that Calvin repeatedly emphasized the fact that when God has made an end of speaking so should we that the word functions as a as a guide in the light and when we reach the extent of That word when we reach the extent of that revelation that is where we should stop.

We should not go beyond that and if we indulge the temptation to Speculation if we indulge the the temptation to enter into the labyrinth. To go beyond where God has said this far and no farther if we insist upon climbing the wall formed by the farthest end of his divine revelation and Seeking to inquire even further into the divine mystery we enter into a labyrinth from which we will never extract ourselves for without that thread.

That thread that you hold on to in the darkness that guides you through the labyrinth which means you cannot run swiftly. Which means you must move slowly hence the the language that he uses here. So that it is better to limp along this path than to dash with all speed outside it.

Limp along this path remember Calvin frequently refers to the fact the Word of God is God lisping to us. It's it's God speaking baby. Talk to us. We don't like that either because we don't want to see that kind of Chasm of ontological difference between ourselves and God.

We we want to think that we can sit down with God at the table and and speak as equals. But God has in fact greatly humbled himself To communicate to us in a way that we can understand and so this idea of going beyond divine revelation Calvin sees it as hubris a Lack of humility arrogance the pride of the creature.

It is an affront to God's sovereignty. Because it is saying well God has placed a limit as to what we can know in scripture and That limit is is too binding. We disagree with the wisdom of the Holy Spirit in essence is Calvin's point when we choose to go beyond That which he has revealed in scripture.

And as a result we enter into areas once we leave the solid rock the solid foundation of divine revelation. We enter into areas where we will of necessity end up in self contradiction now. These are words.

I need to repeat to myself. Because the fact that when you deal with apologetics You tend to succumb to the temptation to strive for some form of omniscience. To strive to be able to answer any question that could possibly be placed before you.

And the fact is that Within Christian the Christian faith itself there are all sorts of questions. That God leaves us in the area of faith as to its answer. We are like the little child who at times is faced with something that is beyond his or her capacity.

I remember very clearly and She remembers very clearly An experience in my daughter's life where as a very young child she kept having these terrible earaches and Ear infections, and so it was time for the dreaded Tubes in the ear and I remember when we took her to the hospital and they come out to get her in the waiting room and the horrible helpless feeling as they these People in gowns take her from us.

We've tried to explain to her. But we can't go in with her and her leaning away from this person her arms outstretched crying madly for daddy to rescue her from these terrible people and and daddy can't do that but She had to trust that we were doing this for for the right purposes and reasons.

And we don't like similes like that we do not like Examples like that. Because it again reminds us of just how great is the distance between the creator and the created?

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Yet those are all biblical Concepts those are all biblical images. God is far beyond our highest aspirations of him and His thoughts are above our thoughts. He weighs the entire universe in the scale He is the creator of all things.

He speaks and things come into existence and so We have to keep that in mind and have to keep in mind that God has the right to determine How much he's going to reveal and how much he is not and and there is a tendency on the part of the apologetically minded To want to go beyond that to want to go beyond the revelation go beyond the wisdom of God and In so doing we Reckon, I think we we give evidence of the fact That often we have the wrong idea as to what? apologetics is and to who.

Fundamentally is the one that makes apologetics worthwhile. You simply cannot change the hearts of men. Men will as long as they remain in rebellion against God as long as God has not extended his grace to them so as to Change those hearts of rebellion Will always be able to come up with questions to substantiate their continued rebellion.

That is that is part of the perversion of the very image of God is man's Incredible ability to suppress the knowledge of God and to do so in so many and varied ways.

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So these words are important to me because they Demonstrate that here was one who had a great intellect. I've often considered who had the greater intellect Jonathan Edwards or John Calvin and I think some might point to Edwards because Edwards was a tremendous philosopher and Edwards had wide-ranging interests and things like that, but While that's a possibility And I don't think we could ever you know come to any sound conclusion about the question.

There is one place where Calvin showed more maturity than Edwards did and That was on this very issue for Edwards did not Stay within the realm of Scripture. He especially in attempting to figure out How one who was in an unfallen state Adam could fall decided to go beyond Scripture and to try to come to a conclusion and even someone with as great an admiration for Edwards and indeed a love for Edwards as Jonathan Gerstner could come to conclusion that here the the great intellect of Northampton found himself in a morass of self-contradiction and Why did he find himself there?

He found himself there because he went beyond that which was written. He climbed the the wall at the end of divine revelation and entered the labyrinth and even the great intellect of Edwards could not find its way out of that labyrinth that certainly Calvin had warned him of Years before and of course Edwards was familiar with the writings of Calvin but that particular point did not seem to sink in at least on that particular philosophical question of the nature of Adams will and things like that and I think there is a an element of this that we need to Think of a number of times.

Here's a couple of the quotes. I want to share with you today.

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Human curiosity renders the discussion of predestination already somewhat difficult of itself very confusing and even dangerous. No restraints can hold it back from wandering in forbidden bypass and thrusting upward to the heights.

If allowed it will leave no secret to God that it will not search out and unravel. Since we see so many on all sides Rushing into this audacity and impudence. Among them certain men and not otherwise bad.

They should in due season be reminded of the measure of their duty in this regard. First then let them remember remember that when they inquire into predestination. They are penetrating the sacred precincts of divine wisdom.

If anyone with carefree assurance breaks into this place he will not succeed in satisfying his curiosity and He will and here's the same language again, he will enter a labyrinth from which he can find no exit for it is not right for man unrestrained ly to search out things that the Lord has willed to be hidden himself and To unfold from eternity itself the sublimest wisdom, which he would have us revere.

But not understand that through this also we should he should fill us with wonder. He has set forth by his word the secrets of his will that he has decided to reveal to us these he decided to reveal insofar as he foresaw that they would concern us and benefit us and so there seems to be in Calvin's words here an attitude on the part of mankind an Attitude that allows God to be God now part of that the historical terminology that has been used of this attitude is that of mystery and Again, the apologetically minded don't like this word.

I don't particularly like this word only because I've heard it abused so many times. I have been Accused wrongly by many of saying ah well you just you rush off and embrace the concept of mystery. You know the a couple of the Muslims in London We're saying well James just simply refers to mystery and I and in explain the Trinity and I don't I haven't.

I mean There's mystery in the Trinity in the sense that We as creatures cannot begin to comprehend the fullness of God. But I have never said that the mystery is a self contradictory that the Trinity is a self contradictory concept and you just have to grasp mystery to make a sense of that's that's not the case at all and The same way that type of terminology is frequently used by people who don't have a biblical leg to stand on to support their position and.

So you just fill in the holes in a less than biblical position with the term mystery. There is a biblical term. There is a biblical use the term mystery. It's primarily in reference to that which had been hidden in the Old Covenant that which has been made visible and understandable in the New Covenant.

So there is a biblical use of the word, but I think there is an appropriate theological aspect to the term mystery as well and that is there it is descriptive of the attitude that we have when we come to the the knowledge of God found in Scripture we come to that wall and What attitude should we have when we come to the limits of God's revelation.

Should we chafe at that. Should we question God's wisdom or? Should the proper attitude to be to fall upon one's knees in Worship and all. I think that's what Calvin was saying elsewhere in book 1 chapter 5 section 9.

He's talking about the Trinity and he said these words we must therefore be much more profoundly affected by this knowledge. Than if we to imagine a God of whom no perception came through to us. Consequently, we know the most perfect way of seeking God and the most suitable order is not for us to attempt with bold curiosity to penetrate the investigation of his essence.

Which we ought more to adore Than meticulously to search out. Now do you hear that speaking of his essence and this is the same language he uses in talking about predestination. He speaks of this bold curiosity.

This bold curiosity we should always be curious about what the Word of God says. But there's a curiosity that goes beyond what the Word of God has said it says that's not enough for me. Of course I've never found anyone to be perfect honest with you in my experience.

Who had this attitude and I have met many? Who actually was much of a master of the Word of God at all? They had a surface level knowledge. But taking the knowledge they had and putting it together into a Christian worldview that demonstrated wisdom.

They didn't have that and so they had a surface level knowledge the word and they thought they had a very deep knowledge the word. And so when they came to those areas where the word has ceased to speak that's why they chafed at that point and they wanted to go beyond that and It has led to a lot of problems.

But that's what he's talking about and the most suitable order is not for us to attempt with bold Curiosity to penetrate the investigation of his essence. Which we ought more to adore Than meticulously to search out.

I Think he's saying that there is an attitude a proper worshipful attitude that when you come To the end of Revelation and not a lot of people ever get to the end of Revelation to be perfectly honest with you.

I Mean takes a lot of work to be able to honestly say that that I have examined All of the key texts and I have I have I have sought to to really understand the whole counsel of God on this point but even when one comes to that conclusion as You stand at that last part of the path.

Where beyond that is the darkness of the labyrinth? Beyond that is the realm of speculation. There is a bold curiosity on the part of many of us who are apologetically minded. Maybe we can fashion a flashlight that will be bright enough for us to to get through the labyrinth.

Maybe we we will be able to see something that no one in any Previous generation has been able to see. I mean we are much wiser than the ancients. Are we not? We have iPods and cell phones and computers.

We can just plug it into the computer and figure it out, right, but there is an attitude on the part of many that stands there and either plunges with impudence into that which God has chosen to keep to himself or Fashions means outside of the Word of God to further the path I Think what Calvin is saying is when you get to that end where you're standing at the edge of the light that the proper attitude is to fall to one's knees and Adore the God who has given you the light and the privilege to reach the point that you have That I think is what he's saying and I would agree with that.

For so much damage has been done over The history of the church by those who impudently decided to press forward rather than finding satisfaction In the extent of the revelation that God has given now.

It's interesting to me that when Calvin first wrote the Institutes the Christian religion He was in his 20s, which is amazing. It was but a booklet it increased between seven and eight times its size by the time the final Latin edition in 1559 and.

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He never rewrote the book in the sense of he never changed anything he simply rearranged and expanded. He expanded especially in a pastoral sense. One of the best-known pastoral Emendations that he makes to the Institutes is up through as I recall.

I'm doing this off top my head 15 the 55th the 1556 edition. The discussion of predestination had been included as it is in most systematic theologies in The section the doctrine of God at the beginning of the Institutes in the 1559 edition.

You can go all the way through the doctrine of God and you will not encounter the discussion of predestination. It's no longer in book one. It's not in book two. It's in book three, but before you get to it in book three.

You have the whole discussion of how we receive the grace of Christ. You have a whole discussion the Holy Spirit. You have the longest chapter in the Institutes and that's on prayer. And. Finally upon completing the discussion of prayer you now have the discussion of predestination.

That probably was the result of Calvin's pastoral experience. Recognizing that this is primarily an issue for the believer to wrestle with not the unbeliever. That the unbeliever will always find a way to object to this divine truth.

It is the believer who knows his own heart well enough so as to Recognize the truth of the sovereignty of grace. But even before getting to that I'll pick up with the rest of the quotation that I was reading before this is chapter 21 book 3.

Section 2. I read a portion of section 1 earlier. We have entered the pathway of faith says Augustine. Let us hold steadfastly to it. It leads us to the king's chamber in which are hid all treasures of knowledge and wisdom.

For the Lord Christ himself did not bear a grudge against his great and most select Disciples when he said I have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. We must walk we must advance we must grow that our hearts may be capable of those things which we cannot yet grasp.

But if the last day finds us advancing there we shall learn what we could not learn here if this thought prevails with us that the word of the Lord is the sole way that can lead us in our search for all that Is lawful to hold concerning him and is the sole light to illumine our vision of all that we should see of him.

It will readily keep and restrain us from all rashness. For we shall know that the moment we exceed the bounds of the word our course is outside the pathway and in darkness and That there we must repeatedly wander slip and stumble.

Let this therefore first of all be before our eyes to seek any other knowledge of Predestination than what the Word of God discloses is not less insane that if one should purpose to walk in a pathless waste or to see in darkness and Let us not be ashamed to be ignorant of something in this matter wherein there is certain learned ignorance.

Rather let us willingly refrain from inquiring into a kind of knowledge the ardent desire for which is both foolish and dangerous nay even deadly. But if a wanton curiosity Agitates us we shall always do well to oppose to it this restraining thought.

Just as too much honey is not good. So for the curious the investigation of glory is not turned into glory. For there is good reason for us to be deterred from this insolence which can only plunge us into ruin.

Those are strong words insolence. Pride curiosity. But then he addresses the other side and I'll try to get this in before our break. The second danger. Anxious silence about the doctrine of election.

Here's what he says. There are others who wishing to cure this evil all but require that every mention of predestination be buried. Indeed they teach us to avoid any question of it as we would a reef.

Even though their moderation this matter is rightly to be praised because they feel these mysteries ought to be discussed with great soberness. Yet because they descend to too low a level they make little progress with the human understanding which does not allow itself to be easily restrained.

Therefore to hold to a proper limit in this regard also We shall have to turn back to the Word of the Lord in which we have a sure rule for the understanding. For scripture is the school of the Holy Spirit in which as nothing is omitted that is both necessary and useful to know.

So nothing is taught. But what is expedient to know? Therefore we must guard against depriving believers of Anything disclosed about predestination in scripture lest we seem either wickedly to defraud them of the blessing of their God or To accuse and scoff at the Holy Spirit for having published.

What is in any way? profitable to suppress. That's when I first read the Institutes in seminary. I I don't know if I heard this of somebody else or if I came of it on my own. I'll be perfectly honest with you at that point.

I think I came up with it on my own, but I could be wrong, so I'm not going to claim it in that way. But the illustration I used was the ink smudges. The ink in the Institutes smudges. That is the that is the mark of true greatness in literary achievement is That you can write something that when read four and five hundred years later is Still as relevant as when you first wrote it.

That's not easy to do. Most of us have to depend so much upon the crutch of the present that it's very very very difficult to do that. Eight seven seven seven five three three three four one. We're gonna take our break and be right back.

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It's a lot of fun so. We're gonna have more stuff coming in the future Lord willing. And maybe someday the the old Ashley commercials can be recycled. Can have a commercial we'll have commercials in the vinyl and one day none of which are more than five years old.

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Is that what you're talking about. Writing new books, where's it. Where's the commercial for the. You know, well. You have pulpit crimes.

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What a couple years, but hey, it's better. Well, then oh so I should be cranking out books a little more often, huh?

Is that okay? No, I'm the one taking the hits for playing the old commercials. That's what's going on. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I hear you. Okay.

Anyway I Mentioned last week that we had some More clips to play so I'm gonna go ahead and get to them and of your comments if you'd like to call today. It's seven seven seven five three three three four one.

We're sort of avoiding the textual critical subject today. Maybe get a few people that have fallen asleep unfortunately to Back in that doesn't mean if you don't have a if you have a text critical question, you can't call but Anyway, the clips aren't gonna be on that.

I have been provided with some intellecting clips here and One Catholic apologist. I haven't debated yet, and I'd like to set up a debate. I Am going back to New Jersey in June and so who knows maybe something could be worked out.

It'd be nice but Mr. Martin Yoni appears on the Catholic answers live every once in a while and He's an interesting fellow, I think we could have an interesting debate. Especially when he makes comments like he did here talking about well about debates John.

What exactly do we mean when we're talking?

Scriptural apologetics.

Well, basically Tom I am in Alabama native born and raised here and I was out of raised a Catholic. But didn't really learn my faith early on left the church for many years and came back into the church and after actually learning my faith God kept putting me in position questions about the Catholic Church and why Catholics believe that why do they believe it and being here in?

Alabama where we're maybe that much. Yes, maybe most of the questions were from Non-Catholic Christians who were saying does it say that so all of what I do grew out of my personal Experiences in talking to non-Catholic Christians and having to defend Straight from the Bible where Catholic teaching is and I think teaching is supported in the Bible.

You can do it just from the Bible. That's not how we as Catholics do it, but for those Christians Baptist evangelicals Whatever they might call themselves who go by the Bible alone I'll say and so it's we can defend solely from the Bible our faith using just the Bible.

So that's what scriptural apologetics is all about defending the Catholic faith Catholic teachings and beliefs using just the box. That's what most non-Catholic Christians want to hear from just the Bible.

We're not making this stuff up.

Right. No, we're not. I Go in and you say look we can use your Bible to make this point, you know. Don't don't go by my Bible hand me your King James and let's and let's talk about this.

Absolutely. That's people say. Well, what do you do John with those seven books? That Catholics have that non-Catholics don't I said. Well I generally don't use them because the other guys playing field and I'll give a better on his own playing field.

You know as someone who has watched you in debate several times It is it is just amazing to watch John Martin Oni in action because I've seen you go up against people with PowerPoint Presentations and overhead projectors and you know a whole backup staff and it's versus John Martin Oni and the Bible right and yet and yet.

People, you know come away and go gee. I never thought of it that way.

Well, but I tell people it's easy to defend, you know, you can have people that well. They might be able to found it by Jesus Christ. He actually very easy as long as you just keep your wits about you.

It's very easy to defend the truth.

I don't want you. I I think we ought to contact John Martin Yanni and see if he'd like to maybe debate the Marian dogmas out of the script the scriptures. That would be. I would love to.

See.

Somebody run off to Revelation 12 or reading entire volumes into kakara. To many it's Luke 128. And I I think that would be exceptionally useful. So we're gonna have to try to track down Mr. Martin Yanni and see if we can't schedule something.

We haven't done a Roman Catholic debate in a long time and It's not for lack of anything other than it's tough to get Roman Catholics to debate. In fact I just realized I was just invited to go back to a church I was at last year and that that church we had tried to arrange a Roman Catholic debate prior to the conference so maybe I'll contact them and see if they could Set something up.

This would be in September With John Martin Yanni because they're in a Roman Catholic area. So I think they might want to do that. So I think I'll contact them and see if that's possibility because When when someone talks about whooping them on their own home court.