I would like you to reply to my last post, but I thought I would respond to something you said.
I know that John Calvin brought much in the way of systematic study of the Scriptures but I still battle to have it so clinical and cold.
The systematic study of the Scriptures is in no way clinical and cold. Yes it can be if all one is studying it for is knowledge itself, or for that matter just so one can argue the Scriptures.
But if one studies it as 2 Tim 3:16-17 says, then God becomes more and more evident in that person's life.
The Bible has many checks and balances for the Christian to live by. For example it tells us to remove the log from our own eye, before we remove the splinter from someone else’s eye. Yet, it also tells us to rebuke, where rebuke is needed.
In this way, it makes it so we don't become self righteous and even our rebuke is motivated by love. Never the less, sometimes the most unloving thing to do is withhold rebuke where it is clearly needed.
This is evident in a few of the threads you participated in. For instance, it is clearly evident that Word of Faith teachers are teaching heresy and leading many astray.
Yet you don't seem to acknowledge even that.
What they are doing in some aspects, is no different than why John the Baptist rebuked the Pharisees and Sadducees.
Most of us on the Highway, would like nothing better than for Word of Faith false teachers to repent and turn to the one true God.
I would like to recommend a book to you by JI Packer called 'Knowing God'.
Tom
