Valentines for Calvinists
February 15, 2007
In personal response to Derek's question: by celebrating their wives with tangible expressions of matrimonial affection.
But I hope it's not a day too late to sound a cautionary note arising from a healthy Calvinist doctrine of total depravity: "Many a man proclaims his own steadfast love, but a faithful man who can find?" (Proverbs 20:6).
I suppose the woman who does find him is as fortunate as the man who knows the answer to the riddle in Proverbs 31:10.
But I hope it's not a day too late to sound a cautionary note arising from a healthy Calvinist doctrine of total depravity: "Many a man proclaims his own steadfast love, but a faithful man who can find?" (Proverbs 20:6).
I suppose the woman who does find him is as fortunate as the man who knows the answer to the riddle in Proverbs 31:10.
