| | I was, anyway. Hebrew is kickin' my Gentile booty. It's a beautiful language. I love it. God chose it for a reason. That being said, I've put in about 8 hours on translating Deuteronomy 1, and I've only managed about 20 verses. That, my friends, is called "frustrating" in my native tongue.
I also have another reason to love B.B. Warfield. When it comes to cool quotations, he's like a Presbyterian Spurgeon.
"Perhaps the simplest statement of it is the best: that [Calvinism]
lies in a profound apprehension of God in His majesty, with the
inevitably accompanying poignant realization of the exact nature of the
relation sustained to Him by the creature as such, and particularly by
the sinful creature. He who believes in God without reserve, and is
determined that God shall be God to him in all his thinking, feeling,
willing -- in the entire compass of his life activities, intellectual,
moral, spiritual, throughout all his individual, social, religious
relations - - is, by the force of that strictest of all logic which
presides over the outworking of principles into thought and life, by
the very necessity of the case, a Calvinist. In Calvinism, then,
objectively speaking, theism comes to its rights; subjectively
speaking, the religious relation attains its purity; soteriologically
speaking, evangelical religion finds at length its full expression and
its secure stability. Theism comes to its rights only in a teleological
conception of the universe, which perceives in the entire course of
events the orderly outworking of the plan of God, who is the author,
preserver, and governor of all things, whose will is consequently the
ultimate cause of all. The religious relation attains its purity only
when an attitude of absolute dependence on God is not merely
temporarily assumed in the act, say, of prayer, but is sustained
through all the activities of life, intellectual, emotional, executive.
And evangelical religion reaches stability only when the sinful soul
rests in humble, self-emptying trust purely on the God of grace as the
immediate and sole source of all the efficiency which enters into its
salvation. And these things are the formative principles of Calvinism."
Indeed.
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