"The weaker you are in yourself, the more readily the Lord will receive you." — John Calvin, Institutes, 2.2.11

"God has, if you like, a bias to the Underdog, one might say." — Dr. Carl Trueman, Sermon on 1 Corinthians 10:1-33

Thursday, September 29, 2011

To Love Is to Know

To know in Scripture can entail the idea of factual knowledge or intimacy (often the marital kind). The latter mode is impossible without the former, and yet we often hear of "loving Jesus" divorced from the idea of theology. In such a case, the lover is infatuated with the idea of love rather than the object of love and is really quite in the throes of self-delusion.

Dr. Michael Horton has some words to say:







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