Subject: Calvin or Armini |
Bible Note: I like that Spurgeon quote, especially, "The guiding man is needed still...Their exposition can never be a substitute for our own meditations..." I think it would be correct to add that, as all men are fallible and no system of doctrine is Spirit-inspired and 100 per-cent error free, we must not base our faith on the teachings of others but on what God reveals personally to each of us as we meditate and study the Bible. It seems that an important purpose of Bible study is to own by faith the things God has spoken to us; to believe, not because someone taught it to us but because we have experienced the revelation of its truthfulness (John 4:41-42). I would think that as great in wisdom and exposition a Christian may be, only what God has confirmed to us as true need be believed. |