Calvin, prophet of the mountain

The move to decouple Calvin from Reformed Theology is an academic move. Academic Christians don't know spiritual warfare. They don't know the spiritual battlefield. Calvin was made the symbol of biblical truth by Christians who came to know biblical truth for a reason. Take his name and work out of it and Reformed Theology disintegrates. It gets picked apart by one downgrading movement after another. Oh, but the name Calvin is scary! Yes, good, it keeps away vultures and snowflakes who would appropriate Reformed Theology and turn it into man pleasing mush.

Owen, Bunyan, Calvin. Yes, they had differences in ecclesiology and sacraments. The two areas the Bible gives warrant for differences. Yet were they called Owenists? Bunyanists? Or Calvinists? Calvinists for good reason. 

Calvin is the prophet of the mountain. Muhammad, the prophet of the desert. The Pope is the prophet of the sewers of Rome. Marx is the prophet of hell. Which represents what in the Bible is considered good? A wilderness? Sewers? Hell? Or a mountain? 

Go with the mountain. 

There's an academic approach to the faith, and there's a spiritual warfare approach. The spiritual warfare approach uses what is true and helpful from academia. The academic approach is totally unaware, if not mocking, of the spiritual warfare approach. 

Think Puritans. What were they? Baxterists? No, they were Calvinists. For a reason.