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Calvin's Institutes: February 9
God is not a distant Creator who wound up the world and stepped away—he is the living Governor who sustains, directs, and rules every moment of creation, so that what appears to us as chance is in fact ordered by his wise and deliberate counsel (Hebrews 11:3; Psalm 33:6, 13; Psalm 104:27–30; Matthew 10:30; Psalm 115:3). In these opening sections of Book 1, Chapter 16, Calvin presses past vague appeals to divine power and insists on a providence that is active, particular, and personal: governing nature, history, and human lives down to the smallest detail. Against philosophies that stop at…
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