Tim

If you want to see what I mean by lack of self-awareness in a Christian go here (perhaps you need to know this person's history, I don't know). This earnest and very humorless young man has a sub-zero level of self-awareness. He's also discovered his public library which is OK if only he didn't now think he's the only Christian who owns a library card. By the way: he reads, uniquely, narrowly and shallowly (though he does seem to be learning to at least reference the full canon more) and he believes books exist to make people elitists and to give elitists the right to think of others as illiterate morons. This last is actually a very common trait among shallow academics, it's just that most of them learn to only think it. This guy hasn't risen to that level of inane sophistication yet. Naive though he be I'm sure he'll catch on to that at some point and resort to mere heavy sighs and rolling of the eyes and such.

My advice to this young man: don't go back to calling yourself Reformed. You aren't a Reformed Christian. (You're still mocking Reformed Christians...hint?) You are a young, liberal, intellectual wannabee. And a bit of a nightmare of one at that. My advice: finish your self-education. You need to get a lot of things in and through your system before you even come close to discoursing on the Christian faith, let alone Reformed Theology. You don't see the power of Reformed Theology, you don't value it, you don't understand it. You don't even know the difference between being puffed up with knowledge and intellectually vain (and similar states) vs. being broken in spirit.