What's fascinating about Shenvi's article is that he throws out the historical Reformed understanding (including Calvin's commentaries on these biblical passages) in favor of biblicism. Rather than allowing there to be mystery and what J.I. Packer called "antinomies"
https://twitter.com/drantbradley/status/1373991552012406784
of two *seemingly* contradictory truths (like the antinomy of divine sovereignty and human responsibility), Shenvi "rounds the edges" of biblical passages using a biblicistic hermeneutic. On top of that, he cites the Westminster Confession of Faith as an interesting but mistaken
way of trying to show he's within the Reformed tradition.
I commend Calvin's commentaries on the pertinent passages of Scripture.
timothyisaiahcho.medium.com/john-calvins-v…
I commend Calvin's commentaries on the pertinent passages of Scripture.
timothyisaiahcho.medium.com/john-calvins-v…
Based on Calvin's commentaries, I believe this is a fair conclusion:
"We should not assume that the pollution of sin is thwarted by a cosmic moat of time and space, as though the present is quarantined from the past. It is more than reasonable to believe that a nation that has
"We should not assume that the pollution of sin is thwarted by a cosmic moat of time and space, as though the present is quarantined from the past. It is more than reasonable to believe that a nation that has
never repented of systemic injustices and oppression of the past would be experiencing the condemnation of these sins in the present. It is more than reasonable to believe that a church and Christian institutions and movements that were either complicit in or proactively engaged
in these heinous sins and has never repented are also undergoing a time of discipline or judgment today."
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