Fifty-seven varieties of religious experience
The human mind, wrote the French theologian John Calvin, “is a permanent factory of idols”. We are instinctively religious, Calvin believed, but because we are unable to perceive God according to His nature, we invent inferior deities to suit our needs – a “great crowd of gods” that sweeps in wherever human intelligence is at work. For Calvin, the sovereignty of God and the truth of scripture were objective facts. The problem was the human mind, which was variable, error-plagued and hopelessly perplexed.
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