So! I went back to the source to make certain I was not incorrect in something I said about Calvin last week (I was correct...) and ran across an idiotic statement by him that made me laugh -- and made me angry. If this one doesn't make you Calvinists give up and burn your copies of the Institutes and whatever else he wrote that you value above Jesus and the written Word, then good luck to you!
When God took dirt and formed the red (adam=red) clay lump that he knelt over to breathe the recycled air of the eternal realm into, He had made a replica of Himself. Another way of saying this is that He made something like a clay statue of Himself. This idea causes problems with the Calvinists who think God is a Cosmic Fireball and think Jesus is sort of God...not quite reaching fully divine status. (Don't get confused by the semantic slight of hand that Calvinists use. They don't seriously give a damn about Jesus. He is relegated to an exalted man concept that is not much better than that of the Muslims. Certainly no better than Mormons.) In the Calvinist reinvention of reality, there is no way to make a statue that represents a Cosmic Fireball. What they think "made in His image and likeness" means, seems to be incomprehensible.
Oh wait! That last statement is not exactly true. Apparently, according to Calvin, God could make dogs in His divine image. Or Jackasses. Or Oxen. You Calvinists are pantheists. Your leader had no difficulty rewriting the Bible version of creation and importing the stupid idea that innocent Adam had a built in corruption. Then, in order to exalt his pet doctrine that God was sovereign de facto, Calvin says that the image of God could be accomplished in dogs. Maybe it is not as bad as thinking, as Pharisees do, that God can make the devil in His image if He wants to (Think about that one for a while you fools --just being technical with that word...read Psalm 14!).
Calvinistic rationalization coupled with the deceptive power of the dark angels (Matthew 24:21-24). When you boys find that you have been playing in a Giant's kitchen, the Tribulation will be upon us with a vengeance. Maybe y'all will wake up in time to remember the cross of Jesus and start chopping off your right hands (Revelation 13:16, Matthew 5:30...not hyperbolic). Not sure what you plan to do about the forehead mark...
The notion that God could make humanity out of dogs insults mankind and the Son of Man, Jesus. The formula doesn't work and, as ever, Calvin is derailed by rationality and proves that the cross means nothing to him.
Jesus promises to open Himself in time to allow anyone who so chooses to come into him. As a man, He becomes the one and only being about whom we can ALL say that He is "man's best friend." He proves this truth at the cross.
Come to the cross.
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