Featured John Calvin :Man Of The Millennium

Thank you for posting facts.

 

Worldwide fact: Mankind is depaved--totally. The best of our righteousness is filthy rags.

Jesus is the only one worthy of lifting up; yet we have a rabid case of respect of persons.

Come out of nominal christianity and follow Jesus, The Christ, The Son of the Living God.

Jon Chauvin was a pedobaptist heading up a state religion--completely contrary to Jude 3.

Are there any Real Baptists left out there? Fall in--before Jesus.

Peace,

Bro. James

 

Calvin was a despot and murderer.

"The outstanding work of Calvin, from a practical point of view, was his municipal dictatorship in the city of Geneva. The literature on the subject is exhaustive. Striking instances of discipline in Geneva are these:

A man was banished from the city for three months because he heard an ass bray and said jestingly, "He prays a beautiful Psalm."

Three men who had laughed during a sermon were imprisoned for three days.

Three children were punished because they remained outside of a church to eat some cakes.

A child was whipped publicly for calling his mother a thief.

A girl who struck her parents was beheaded.

A person was imprisoned for four days because he wanted to call his child Claude (the name of a Catholic saint) instead of Abraham.

It can be seen from the above that many of the persecutions which John Calvin endured were not for "well doing" (1 Peter 2:15): they were for carrying on like a fool engaged in trying to "bring in his Kingdom."

In Geneva, a secret police was forged under the name of The Consistory. Every home was compulsorily examined and searched. The City was divided into districts and committees of the Consistory were empowered to search and interrogate all residents without previous notice. Attendance at public worship was commanded and watchmen were directed to see that people went to church. The one thing that Calvin did not endorse was religious liberty.

From 1541 to 1546, John Calvin caused 58 people to be executed and seventy six were exiled. His victims ranged in age from 16 to 80. The most common capital offense was the opposition to infant baptism. Today, baptism only for accountable believers, is a Baptist distinctive. In Calvin's time it was punished either by drowning, a drawn out and slow burning at the stake, or beheading. All this was done in public, with city residents compelled to watch the butchery. The executions were spaced out so as to exert a continuing policy of fear and terror. Others were killed for advocating local church autonomy; opposing the tie-in of church and state: and preaching that Christ died for all sinners (unlimited atonement). Press censorship continued in Geneva until the eighteenth century.

THE KILLING OF MICHAEL SERVETUS

It is Servetus' religious views that we are now concerned with, for that is what got him killed. He was premillennial and rejected Calvin's doctrine of predestination. So far so good. Servetus was also strongly anti-Catholic. He referred to the Mass as "a Satanic monstrosity and an invention of demons." To these sentiments the Reformers could agree. So what was the problem with Servetus? His trouble was twofold: rejection of infant baptism and holding unorthodox views of the Trinity.

According to Servetus, infant baptism was "a doctrine of the Devil, an invention of popery, and a total subversion of Christianity." He wrote two letters to Calvin on adult baptism and exhorted him to follow his example. The marginal, notes against infant baptism that Servetus wrote in Calvin's Institutes were used as evidence against him during his trial. Servetus admitted at his trial that he had referred to infant baptism as a "diabolical invention and infernal falsehood destructive of Christianity." Regarding the Trinity, Servetus was not a Unitarian but had a strange view of the Trinity in a great measure peculiar to himself. Now although Servetus' Trinitarian views were not orthodox; they were by no means criminal. Calvin wrote in a letter, "Servetus lately wrote to me... He takes it upon him to come hither, if it be agreeable to me. But I am unwilling to pledge my word for his safety, for if he shall come, I shall never permit him to depart alive, provided my authority be of any avail."

While in Geneva, Servetus made the mistake of attending church on Sunday where he was recognized and arrested. It was on Calvin's information to the magistracy that Servetus was put in prison, which fact Calvin did not deny. The trial lasted over two months and Calvin himself drew up a document of thirty-nine accusations against Servetus.
On the way to the stake, Servetus besought God to pardon his accusers. On account of the use of green oak-wood, Servetus suffered for half an hour. His last words were: "Jesus Christ, thou Son of the eternal God, have mercy on me!" At twelve noon on October 27, 1553, Servetus passed into his eternal destiny. Nine years afterward, Calvin still justified his actions.

The strongest recorded statement from Calvin on the Servetus affair is a 1561 letter from Calvin to the Marquis Paet, high chamberlain to the King of Navarre, in which he says intolerantly:

"Honour, glory, and riches shall be the reward of your pains; but above all, do not fail to rid the country of those scoundrels, who stir up the people to revolt against us. Such monsters should be exterminated, as I have exterminated Michael Servetus the Spaniard."

The respected Lutheran historian, Mosheim (1694-1755), judged in favor of Servetus. The historian Gibbon remarked: "he was more deeply scandalized at the single execution of Servetus than at the hecatombs which have blazed in the Auto da Fes of Spain and Portugal. The zeal of Calvin seems to have been envenomed by personal malice, and perhaps envy."

A man who would burn another man at the stake for disagreeing with him doctrinally is not a man to be emulated or followed or admired."

 

Sir, you are in need of God's mercy. Your standards of conduct are so warped they are not even worthy of comment. I despise Calvin because he went beyond the normal sin pattern of any decent human being. To add insult, an entire doctrine worthy of everyone's attention was named after him. How dare you, as a Christian, well versed in church history, start a thread praising a monster.

 

The author is not unknown. I simply chose to quote only part of the article, as some of it might be inflammatory to my Calvinist friends here. I am strongly opposed to Calvinism but not to Calvinists, generally speaking.

The article used the following as reference material:


REFERENCES:

1. Christianity Through The Centuries by Earle Cairns, Zondervan Publishing House.
2. History of Calvin and Calvinism by Zygmund Dobbs.
3. Predestined for Hell? No! by Dr. John R. Rice, c 1958, Sword of the Lord Foundation, Murfreesboro, Tenn.
4. Hyper Calvinism by Dr. Peter S. Ruckman c 1984, published in Pensacola, Florida.
5. The Other Side of Calvinism by Laurence M. Vance, c 1991, Vance Publications.
6. T-U-L-I-P by James R. Hood, Southland Bible Institute, Pikeville, Ky.
7. The History of the New Testament Church by Dr. Peter S. Ruckman c 1982, published in Pensacola, Florida.
8. Foreknowledge, Predestination & Election by Dr. Mark G. Cambron, printed by Seaside Mission, North Miami Beach, Florida.
9. What is Wrong with Five Point Calvinism? By Paul Freeman, published by Highways & Hedges Tracts, Liberty, So. Carolina.


Deny it a thousand times, but the facts are that Calvin was a state-church, persecuting, despotic murderer. If you want to idolize such a creature, you have a problem that only God can help you with.

 

Why would I acknowledge things that are not lies? If the truth were at stake, then you would not have started the thread on a false premise. Compared to you, my discernment is very high, my maturity level is very high, and sure do not need your advice about a counsel. I would suggest all this to you, as it seems you want to make a thug, fraud, murderer, and dictator into a viable servent of the Lord.

You are pathetic.

 

Yes I hate what Calvin was. That is the truth. If someone asked you, what is truth, you answer would be duh.

Huh, no you did not. Your copy and pasted your opinion.

First of all, that is not true. If it were true, it is against the rules to divulge persoanl messages. That is why it is called personal. You are not too bright, are you?

Where I go to church and with whom is none of your business and has nothing to do with this op. What the members of my church think of John Calvin has nothing to do with this op. They would not be embarrased at my posts, they would praise the Lord you are not a member.

Nope, I am expressing what I think of any person who praises Calvin. Why dont you just skip all the introductions and start worshiping him. You could change the name from the Trinity to the Quad God, and add Calvin as a fourth member.

 

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