tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372099135272460009.post4603067985298277786..comments2023-03-29T12:07:07.270-04:00Comments on Van AllsBlog : John Calvin on a Life of RepentanceChristopher Mark Van Allsburghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16955371990568269785noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372099135272460009.post-68039888256171267552008-04-07T09:03:00.000-04:002008-04-07T09:03:00.000-04:00Jon, some very good questions.I see this call of l...Jon, <BR/><BR/>some very good questions.<BR/><BR/>I see this call of life, a life of daily confession of sin and "keeping short accounts" as it were, in sum, a life of repentance, as a call to holiness.<BR/><BR/>Since it is a call to holiness, I do in fact find it freeing b/c I know that through the life of the Holy Spirit (to whom I actually pray and address--after all, He is Person!) I can Christopher Mark Van Allsburghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16955371990568269785noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372099135272460009.post-68089745981099550192008-04-05T12:49:00.000-04:002008-04-05T12:49:00.000-04:00Chris,The Reformers and Post-Reformers' vision of ...Chris,<BR/><BR/>The Reformers and Post-Reformers' vision of the life of faith strikes me as a bit tedious. It appears to be something of a spiritual masochism.<BR/><BR/>Sin, rinse, repeat<BR/><BR/>It seems like a cycle of failure that doesn't really line up with Paul's vision of freedom through the Spirit and rising above Law.<BR/><BR/>That's just my take.<BR/><BR/>But what about you. I'm curiousJonathan Erdmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04234688186113838474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372099135272460009.post-37899345568708921262008-03-25T20:52:00.000-04:002008-03-25T20:52:00.000-04:00the answer, of course, is that Christians a) have ...the answer, of course, is that Christians a) have union with Christ through repentance and faith and b) subsequently live lives of daily repentance and faith--not to maintain salvation, but to stay in fellowship with their loving heavenly father and persevere in the faith.<BR/><BR/>I just thought it strange that Calvin started his paragraph with the conditional clause, but ended it with the Christopher Mark Van Allsburghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16955371990568269785noreply@blogger.com