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“True piety consists rather in a pure and true zeal which loves God altogether as Father, and reveres Him truly as Lord, embraces His justice and dreads to offend Him more than to die.”
–John Calvin, Instruction in Faith (1537), Trans. and Ed. Paul T. Fuhrmann (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 1537/1977), 22.
Pharisees were pious. So are Muslims, Buddhists, Catholics, Mormons, you fill in the blanks. You can have all the piety in the world but if you are following a false god or doctrine, it is meaningless.
You can “offend Him” by rejecting the truth that God so loved the world that He sent His only begotten Son Jesus Christ to die on the Cross because He desires that ALL persons be saved.
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