Over at the God's Hammer blog an article by Patrick McWilliams reveals the contradiction of the late Cornelius Van Til's view of Scripture with the view espoused in the Westminster Confession of Faith:
Cornelius Van Til was a minister in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church who is well-known today for his apologetic method and his views on analogical knowledge and paradoxical theology. While many uphold Van Til as a bastion of orthodoxy in the Presbyterian church, his view of Scripture as paradoxical – appearing to be contradictory – was actually anti-Confessional. -- Patrick McWilliams
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Calvinism is Christianity? If you mean that Calvinism is exactly the same thing as Christianity, are you implying that Christianity existed only after Calvin's birth?
Since Christianity is defined by the system of propositional statements in the Scriptures, it logically follows that Calvinism preceded Calvin. What we know as Calvinism is only called that because Calvin rediscovered the authority of Scripture and deduced the system of theology known as Calvinism from the Bible. The first doctrine of Christianity and of Calvinism is the doctrine of sola Scriptura. The first chapter of the Westminster Confession of Faith is the doctrine of Scripture and the system of theology deduced from Scripture in the WCF prioritizes Scripture as the first doctrine of Calvinism followed second by the doctrine of God as Trinity and the third most important doctrine is predestination. The chapters in the WCF are listed in descending order of importance. Calvinism is Christianity and Christianity is Calvinism.
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