If we have an instinctive sense of the divine, why then do people still resist worshiping God? Here, again, we return to Calvin's theme - we're sinful. He proceeds to tell us all the ways that we cover up the knowledge of the Divine. We willfully cover ourselves in corruption, ignorance, superstition, "carnal stupidity," etc. By hiding underneath all this stupidity the innate divine knowledge is 'extinguished.'
Inevitably, our superstition and ignorance lead us to start coming up with our own ideas. One thing leads to another and boom! - we've got ourselves some full blown idolatry, folks. In fact, Calvin is fairly convinced that any divine knowledge that comes from our imagination is bound to be idolatrous.
Finally, Calvin morphs into ripping on that close cousin to idolatry - hypocrisy. Hypocrites are close to idolaters because they flee from God toward empty religious practices in order to hide from God. Those bastards.
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