In God the Creator, Calvin shows how the Fall of Man has lead to spiritual blindness and confusion. He thoroughly discusses the image of God (in which we were created), free will, and original righteousness. He shows how mankind has wandered far afield from God’s original intentions. The book concludes with a full discussion of divine providence. God the Creator is Book 1 of Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion. Charles Spurgeon wrote, “The longer I live, the clearer does it appear that John Calvin’s system is the nearest to perfection.”
