Book 2/Chapter 2
What natural law is for (section 22)
1. Does Calvin take the Gentiles in Romans 2:14-15 to be Christians or not?
2. Does Calvin believe in natural law?
3. How does he define it?
4. What is natural law for?
General and particular (section 23)
1. Can unregenerate men affirm the right ethical choice generally?
2. Where then do they fail, according to Calvin?
First and second table (section 24)
1. Where does human ethical knowledge fail utterly?
2. Where does it fail in a critical sense?
3. What do the philosophers recognize and what do they ignore?
Absolute depravity? (section 25)
1. Does Calvin hold that men are evil in every respect?
2. But what is absolutely necessary in order for us to understand spiritual things?
These are the questions for the readings for Monday, March 9, and those readings can be found here.