In the first place there is a basic difference concerning the nature of revelation. For Calvin, revelation is always and everywhere clear. The facts of natural revelation, both within and about man, are so clearly revelatory of God that he who runs may read. The indicia divinitatis (marks of divinity) of Scripture are equally clear. In fact, the revelation of God to man is so clear that no man can help but know God. Thus man is from the beginning in contact with the truth. Moreover, he cannot separate