In the passage Calvin illustrates concisely and colourfully
how human beings reject God’s goodness even in the creation of their bodies. He
describes the human body as “exquisite workmanship” yet explains that human
beings “substitute nature for God”. How
many of the advertisements we encounter day by day fall into this snare?
Could Calvin be mocking those who substitute their own
bodies for God? In a reference to the
Cyclopes – a malformed giant who assisted the god Zeus in his war against the
Titans in Greek mythology Calvin wonders about humans in their shameless war
against God.
Whilst we now know the “course of atoms” that cook food and
drink and turns some components of food into excrement, some in to blood and
some into the energy for day to life we still do not know everything. It is the things that we do not know that
point to the signs of God’s divinity yet many according to Calvin set God
“aside” from them. In the twenty first
century humans are just as guilty of this as they were in the sixteenth
century. Yet who would claim that human
beings have made progress?
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