존 파이퍼 ,5 points 강독 독해, 9-11 "나는 그 어떤 사상 체계보다도 성경에 궁극적인 권위를 둔다 그런데 세월이 갈수록 오랜 씨름을 거치며 나에게 점점 깊어

존파이퍼,5points 강독(독해)9-11.나는 그 어떤 사상 체계보다도 성경에 궁극적인 권위를 둔다. 그런데 세월이 갈수록 오랜 씨름을 거치며 나에게 점점 깊어지는 확신이 있다. 칼빈주의의 5대 강령에 대한 가르침은 성경적이며, 진리라는 것이다. 그래서 그것은 하나님의 은혜를 더 깊이 경험하게 해 주는 소중한 관문의 역할을 하고 있다.

I do not begin as a Calvinist and defend a system. I begin as
a Bible-believing Christian who wants to put the Bible above all
systems of thought. But over the years—many years of struggle—I
have deepened in my conviction that Calvinistic teachings on the
five points are biblical and therefore true, and therefore a precious
pathway into deeper experiences of God’s grace.
My own struggle makes me more patient with others who are
on the way. And in one sense, we are all on the way. Even when
we know things biblically and truly—things clear enough and
precious enough to die for—we still see through a glass dimly
(1 Cor. 13:12). There can be many tears as we seek to put our
ideas through the testing fires of God’s word.
But all the wrestling to understand what the Bible teaches
about God is worth it. God is a rock of strength in a world of
quicksand. To know him in his sovereignty is to become like an
oak tree in the wind of adversity and confusion. And along with
strength is sweetness and tenderness beyond imagination. The
sovereign Lion of Judah is the sweet Lamb of God.
My Prayer for You
I pray you will be helped. Please don’t feel that you have to
read these short chapters in any particular order. Many of you
will want to skip the historical introduction because it is not
as immediately relevant to the biblical questions. There is an
intentional order to the book, but feel free to start wherever it
looks most urgent for you. If you get help, then you will be
drawn back to the rest of it. If you don’t, well, then just return
to the Bible and read it with all your might. That is where I hope
you will end up anyway: reading and understanding and loving
and enjoying and obeying God’s word, not my word. I pray that
because of our meeting here you will move “Towards a Deeper
Experience of God’s Grace.”