The Blog of Hobbes

First and foremost we are called to Someone (God), not to something (such as motherhood, politics, or teaching) or to somewhere (such as the inner city or Outer Mongolia).

Os Guinness, The Call, p 31

Martin Luther called Copernicus an “upstart astrologer” and

a fool [who] wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy; but sacred Scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth. [Tischreden 1.419]

Melanchthon:

The eyes are witnesses that the heavens revolve in the space of twenty-four hours. But certain men, either from the love of novelty, or to make a display of ingenuity, have concluded that the earth moves. . . . Now, it is a want of honesty and decency to assert such notions publicly, and the example is pernicious. It is the part of a good mind to accept the truth as revealed by God and to acquiesce in it. [Initia Doctrinae Physicae.]

John Calvin:

Astronomers . . .’investigate with great labor whatever keenness of man’s intellect is able to discover. Such study is certainly not to be disapproved, nor this science condemned, because some frantic persons are wont boldly to reject whatever is unknown to them. . . . Therefore, clever men who expend their labor upon it are to be praised and those who have ability and leisure ought not to neglect work of that kind. Nor did Moses wish to withdraw us from this pursuit by omitting such things as are peculiar to the art; but because he was ordained as a teacher of the unlearned and ignorant as well of the learned, he could not fulfill his office unless he descended to this more elementary method of instruction. [Commentaries on the First Book of Moses, 1:86-87]

All quotations taken from Kent Sparks, The Sun Also Rises: Accommodation in Inscripturation and Interpretation in Bacote, Miguelez and Okholm (eds.), Evangelicals & Scripture: Tradition, Authority and Hermeneutics, p114-115

Alberto Gonzales is the first attorney general who thought the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth were three different things.

Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-III.
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