This week we celebrate Reformation Day, October 31st, the day Martin Luther boldly banged

his 95 feces on the church door with nails and a hammer, October 31, 15, 17, of course

he more likely glued the document with poster paste, and he probably left the decoupage

to an assistant, actually.

So theatrics or not, the date marks the ignition of what would grow into the Protestant Reformation.

Last time, in episode 1387, we looked at whether or not we should read dead white guys,

or are they now irrelevant?

And as we inch our way closer to Reformation Day this year, we take a look at the legacy

of a Reformed John Calvin.

It's to do it, I will share a clip from Pastor John's 1997 biography on John Calvin

and his role in shaping the Reformation in our Reformed tradition as we know it today.

Here's what Pastor John had to say.

His view of Scripture, which defined the remainder of his ministry, was very high.

He said, we owe to the Scripture the same reverence which we owe to God because it proceeded

from Him alone and has nothing of man mixed with it.

His own experience had taught him, quote, the highest proof of the Scripture derives

in general from the fact that God in person speaks in it.

Those were the incontrovertible truths for John Calvin.

The Scriptures were the voice of God.

God vindicates God by bringing us to life by His majestic witness.

We see Him in His Scriptures and He and they then become authoritative immediately for

our lives and what kind of life is born for Calvin.

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