I’ve not heard of this book before.
It is interesting when you match the ideal with the great pictures of details in the heavens we see now in the Hubble and James Webb telescopes….
Here’s a sample of what’s found on Facebook daily..
Or more locally my favorite Galaxy outside the Milky Way!
We certainly can see God’s creation more clearly than ever.
Psa 19:1 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.
Psa 50:6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.
Psa 97:6 The heavens declare his righteousness, and all the people see his glory.
I think this article is a good complement to the one I posted earlier today on Election…I suggest reading them together..
I’ve grown to love the Belgic Confession. I just need to figure out how to apply this knowledge in my daily walk. And how to communicate it to others…..Btw..the author quotes from the Westminster also…those documents should not be kept on our shelves!
Fundamental to the “gospel-in-the-stars” error is its implicit confusion of nature for grace and its implicit confusion of law and gospel. According to the Apostle Paul in Romans 1–2, nature reveals only God’s existence and his righteous justice and coming judgment. There is no gospel in the command, “Do this and live,” whether it is revealed in nature, in the covenant of works, or at Sinai. Law is law. It never becomes gospel. It never says, “Christ shall do for you” or “Christ has done for you.” The law is relentless and ruthless to the unjustified. The law says, “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything which is written in the book of the law.” (Gal 3:10). That is essentially a different word from: “Come to me all who are burdened and I will give you rest.” According to God’s Word as confessed by the Reformed (and Lutheran) churches, we only know the gospel from special revelation (grace) not from nature or law.
The Belgic Confession (1561) Art. 2 witnesses to the Reformed confession about the limits of natural revelation:
We know him by two means: First, by the creation, preservation, and government of the universe; which is before our eyes as a most elegant book, wherein all creatures, great and small, are as so many characters leading us to see clearly the invisible things of God, even his everlasting power and divinity, as the Apostle Paul says (Romans 1:20). All which things are sufficient to convince men and leave them without excuse. Second, he makes himself more clearly and fully known to us by his holy and divine Word, that is to say, as far as is necessary to us to know in this life, to his glory and our salvation.
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