Section 24.  Other objections answered. No question here as to the omnipotence of God.

This infamous falsehood cannot be completely wiped away without disposing of another charge. They give out that we are so wedded to human reason, that we attribute nothing more to the power of God than the order of nature admits, and common sense dictates. 639 From these wicked calumnies, I appeal to the doctrine which I have delivered,—Q24a doctrine which makes it sufficiently clear that I by no means measure this mystery by the capacity of human reason, or subject it to the laws of nature. I ask, whether it is from physics we have learned that Christ feeds our souls from heaven with his flesh, just as our bodies are nourished by bread and wine? How has flesh this virtue of giving life to our souls? All will say, that it is not done naturally. Not more agreeable is it to human reason to hold that the flesh of Christ penetrates to us, so as to be our food. In short, every one who may have tasted our doctrine, will be carried away with admiration of the secret power of God. But these worthy zealots fabricate for themselves a miracle, and think that without it God himself and his power vanish away. I would again admonish the reader carefully to consider the nature of our doctrine, whether it depends on common apprehension, or whether, after having surmounted the world on the wings of faith, it rises to heaven. Q24aWe say that Christ descends to us, as well by the external symbol as by his Spirit, that he may truly quicken our souls by the substance of his flesh and blood.

(Q24-Q24a Calvin does not bring clarification by his statement, but because of its degree of ambiguity, the statement in itself will need John's further clarification in the volume in which he has written.  Does Jesus Christ descend to us or is He present with us always in dimensions we can not comprehend? Is the Kingdom of God in our midst or set as immoveable in some unknown celestial position in universal space? If it is the former, then it must be that the Kingdom is extra-dimensional through its King, Jesus Christ? The Spirit and the WORD of GOD are One with the Blood!" (1 John 5:8) Substance" is substantial in faith, (Hebrews11:1) whether the substance is seen or not seen within Calvin's external symbols of bread and wine.  As some one once said: "If faith is seen then it is no longer faith".

He who feels not that in these few words are many miracles, is more than stupid; since nothing is more contrary to nature than to derive the spiritual and heavenly life of the soul from flesh, which received its origin from the earth, and was subjected to death, nothing more incredible than that things separated by the whole space between heaven and earth should, notwithstanding of the long distance, not only be connected, but united, so that souls receive aliment from the flesh of Christ. Let preposterous men, then, cease to assail us with the vile calumny, that we malignantly restrict the boundless power of God. They either foolishly err, or wickedly lie. The question here is not, What could God do? but, What has he been pleased to do? We affirm that he has done what pleased him, and it pleased him that Christ should be in all respects like his brethren, “yet without sin” (Hebrews 4:15). What is our flesh? Is it not that which consists of certain dimensions? is confined within a certain place? is touched and seen? And why, say they, may not God make the same flesh occupy several different places, so as not to be confined to any particular place, and so as to have neither measure nor species? Fool! why do you require the power of God to make a thing to be at the same time flesh and not flesh? It is just as if you were to insist on his making light to be at the same time light and darkness. He wills light to be light, darkness to be darkness, flesh to be flesh. True, when he so chooses, he will convert darkness into light, and light into darkness: but when you insist that there shall be no difference between light and darkness, what do you but pervert the order of the divine wisdom? Flesh must therefore be flesh, and spirit spirit; each under the law and condition on which God has created them. Now, the condition of flesh is, that it should have one certain place, its own dimensions, its own form. On that condition, Christ assumed the flesh, to which, as Augustine declares (Ep. ad Dardan.), he gave incorruption and glory, but without destroying its nature and reality.

Perhaps I am a fool, but we would have less logistical problems, if we might dispense with Calvin's insistence of relegating the flesh of Jesus Christ as he was as the Son of Man on earth, and is now in that same state confined to a heavenly post.  (1 Cor. 15:44-46) It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.  And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.

It is good that Calvin speaks of partaking of the flesh of Jesus Christ within our communion with the Lord, however the Life of that flesh, which is in the blood was fully poured out on this earth for the life of this world. (John 19:33-35),(1 John 5:8-9) The Flesh of Jesus Christ, to my way of thinking, is a dichotomy of  the supernatural substance of spiritual divinity, as the bread that first came down from heaven to become in humility the flesh of man, so as  to be a sacrifice of unparalleled love for all of mankind.

There are far to many problems in John Calvin's argument so as to insist upon the finite flesh of Jesus Christ being dispensed from heavenly places, let alone the Blood of the New Covenant, whose earthly atomic structure is scattered in the earth by the four winds of the earth.  The resurrected Son of God does not live by the life of the blood that He shed for the sins of mankind, but by that Life of the Eternal Spirit of God. It seems to me that the Holy Spirit could not be given unto believing man, until the Son of Man, Who being the Son of God had returned to His Father the victor over man's sin and death.  The glorious testimony of God's love being victorious over sin is now accomplished.  Now in the reunion of Father and Son, it is now possible for the Spirit of the Father and the Son in the same unity of the Holy Spirit to come and make their abode with in the heart of man, which is the very soul/spirit of the person redeemed by the Blood. (John 14:20-23)

We might begin see that the extra-dimensional Word of our extra-dimensional God of Creation renders within the elemental substance of the bread and wine, the fabric of the extra-dimensional, so that now the Flesh/Body and Blood of the WORD of GOD, Jesus Christ is present and authenticated through our faith in God's Omnipotent and unfailing Word.  If God has saved us by faith then why begin to doubt the veracity of the Father's Word.  In the creation of time, space and matter only God's Word has relativity, for  "Through Faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the Word of God, so that things that are seen were not made of things which do appear". Hebrews 11:3

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