[Milton-L] Knowledge, free will, etc.

[Peter C. Herman]

FYI, everyone, the following video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt5AJr0wls0

It should serve to both instruct and delight,

Peter C. Herman

At 10:22 AM 11/8/2008, you wrote:


>Michael Bryson wrote:
> >
> >
> > Calvin makes much the same point about rendering man inexcusable in
> > the Institutes (3.2.11):
> >
> > "I know that to attribute faith to the reprobate seems hard to some,
> > when Paul declares it the result of election [cf 1 Thessalonians
> > 1:4-5]. Yet this difficulty is easily solved. For though only those
> > predestined to salvation receive the light of faith and truly feel the
> > power of the gospel, yet experience shows that the reprobate are
> > sometimes affected by almost the same feeling as the elect, so that
> > even in their own judgment they do not in any way differ from the
> > elect [cf. Acts 13:48]. Therefore it is not at all absurd that the
> > apostle should attribute to them a taste of the heavenly gifts
> > [Hebrews 6:4-6] and Christ, faith for a time [Luke 8:13]; not because
> > they firmly grasp the force of spiritual grace and the sure light of
> > faith, but because the Lord, to render them more convicted and
> > inexcusable, steals into their minds to the extent that his goodness
> > may be tasted without the Spirit of adoption."
> >
> > In that moment from Book 5, the Father seems rather like Calvin's
> > conception of deity...
>
>I am reminded of Keynes's comment on Hayek:
>
>"[O]ne of the most frightful muddles I have ever read, with scarcely
>sound proposition in it beginning with page 45, and yet it remains a
>book of some interest, which is likely to leave its mark on the mind of
>the reader. It is an extraordinary example of how, starting with a
>mistake, a remorseless logician can end up in Bedlam."
>
>Carrol
>
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