Calvin's Institues: February 4

John Calvin's Institutes in a Year · Feb 4, 2026 · 6m

When people try to protect monotheism by shrinking Christ, they do not save the doctrine of God—they replace it with a Trinity that collapses into fiction. Today Calvin confronts the claim that the word “God” belongs to the Father alone and shows why that move cannot survive the Bible’s own logic: if only God is good, immortal, wise, and worthy of exclusive worship, and yet these belong to Christ, then Christ cannot be divine only by association or participation. Calvin also refuses the attempt to confine Christ’s glory to His humanity, because the exaltation of the Mediator presupposes that…