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WEEK FOUR

BOOK I  CHAPTER 4  SECTION 1

SUPERSTITION

1. What two elements of human personality does Calvin conclude are present when       men seek God that causes their blindness in seeing God?

2. Why do men not see God but imagine God to be something of their own       imagination?

3. Define will worship as outlined by Calvin in this section.

 

BOOK I  CHAPTER 4  SECTION 2

CONSCIOUS TURNING AWAY FROM GOD

1. To whom does the fool has said in his heart there is no god apply?

2. Even as man deliberately erases God from his mind, what at the same time declares       God to them?

3. What does this arrogance and deliberate removal of God from the mind rob God of?

 

BOOK I  CHAPTER 4  SECTION 3

WE ARE NOT TO FASHION GOD ACCORDING TO OUR OWN WHIM

1. What must true religion be conformed to?

2. What action of man allows man to worship the God of his own imagination?

3. What is the difference of holding to the existence of God and/or there being many       gods?

 

BOOK I  CHAPTER 4  SECTION 4

HYPOCRISY

1. What first brought Agods@ into the world?

2. What are men who do these things (false or will worship) actually doing?

3. From what single source does true religion spring?