Its hard to imagine that John Calvin was just a little baby at one time, but he was born July 10, 1509. He was quite a pastor and theologian. He wrote commentaries on all of the Bible except Revelation (because he said he didn't understand it). His most famous work is The Institutes of the Christian Religion. It is excellent and here is a quote from it.
Here Calvin is saying that ultimately, born again Christians do not need a lot of convincing that the Bible is God's word, they know its true and authoritative because through it the Holy Spirit gives spiritual vigor to the heart of the Christian and testifies that the Bible is truly God's word.
The quote is worth the read.
"We ask not for proofs or probabilites on which to rest our Judgment [aka whether the Bible is true or not] but we subject our intellect and Judgment to it [aka the Bible] as too transcendent for us to estimate. This, however, we do, not in the manner in which some are wont to fasten on an unknown object, which, as soon as known, displeases, but because we have a thorough conviction that, in holding it, we have unassailable truth; not like miserable men, whose minds are enslaved by superstition, but because we feel a divine energy living and breathing in it-an energy by which we are drawn and animated to obey it, willingly indeed, and knowingly, but more vividly and effectually than could be done by human will or knowledge."
Amen brother, couldn't have said it better.
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