John Calvin viewed Scripture as being equivalent to an utterance of God given from heaven: Calvin believed Scripture to be the Word of God.(Institutes, 1.7.4)] He considered that Christians do not need the testimony of the church to appreciate its authority, since it is self-authenticating,and that it is only through the Holy Spirit that we know it to be the Word of God.. Calvin wrote that Scripture was like God talking directly to us:
"Since no daily responses are given from heaven, and the Scriptures are the only records in which God has been pleased to consign his truth to perpetual remembrance, the full authority which they ought to possess with the faithful is not recognised, unless they are believed to have come from heaven, as directly as if God had been heard giving utterance to them."
Institutes of Christian Religion I.vii.1.
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