Afterthought
Puritan Board Senior
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So I was wondering about this. Is Calvin advocating an early form of the carnal Christian doctrine of evangelicalism? If not, what is he talking about? I'm pretty sure I saw a thread somewhere in these forums on this, but I couldn't find it again. I can see the context but am still a bit confused--perhaps because I have not read a whole lot of Calvin.He does not mean, however, that they were altogether carnal, so as to have not one spark of the Spirit of God — but that they had still greatly too much of carnal sense, so that the flesh prevailed over the Spirit, and did as it were drown out his light. Hence, although they were not altogether destitute of grace, yet, as they had more of the flesh than of the Spirit, they are on that account termed carnal This sufficiently appears from what he immediately adds — that they were babes in Christ; for they would not have been babes had they not been begotten, and that begetting is from the Spirit of God.