More from Calvin’s commentary on Romans 9:
Did Calvin believe that the image of God in man had been completely
obliterated through his fall into sin? This will be a caricature of what will
later be called “total depravity.” Calvin, however, presents a more nuanced
view here:
It is true that we are
all born blind, but still, amidst the darkness of corrupt and depraved nature,
some sparks of continue to shine, so that men differ from brute beasts. Now, if
any man, elated by proud confidence in his own opinion, refuses to submit to
God, he will seem—apart from Christ—to be wise, but the brightness of Christ
will strike him with dismay; for never does the vanity of the human mind begin
to be discovered, until heavenly wisdom is brought into view.
JTR
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