Some Basic Info On John Calvin

[personal attack edited]

 

You can call them facts if you want, but that doesn't make them true. Most of your rantings are based upon your wondrous ability to cut and paste and, evidently a lot of spare time to scour the Internet looking for those who agree with you.

I don't know why it bothers you that everyone doesn't agree with you concerning the NIV, but in spite of your ramblings, everyone will chose for themselves regardless how many pages you post saying hooray for my side!

 

Yes, facts by definition are true. The problem is you post opinions, and uninformed ones at that.

That is so pot and kettle.

 

OK. Who is gonna' come in here an moderatiOWN this thread?

 

Practice what you preach, Brother. Practice what you preach.

When I referenced another thread via linking rather than quoting content, you couldn't resist bringing in content that had nothing to do with this thread. Even though I asked you not to include other BB members in reference to my post, you had to drag someone in, anyway.

Over the years, I've learned that most people reflect the attributes of their mentors. Sometimes positive. Sometimes negative. Sometimes something inbetween. I take it that John Calvin is a form of "mentor" in your life. You want me to give time and energy to study him and his writings. To incorporate his views into my thinking. Yet, if you are, indeed, showing some degree of reflection of him, then, perhaps that isn't a place that I want to go.

In closing and for whatever it may be worth.....

Everyone of us should be reflecting the attributes of the greatest Mentor who ever walked on this earth. Sadly, sometimes I fail miserably, when I forget that, even for a moment. :tear: Especially when I sitting at this keyboard. Trying hard to practice what I preach sometimes requires that I sit on my hands to keep them off the keys. :type:

 

Best post of the thread, and advice I need to take more often. I can remember, from an earthly standpoint, a "mentor" that really impressed me as a young person and adult that was good for this country was Richard Nixon when elected President in 1968. As the economy improved, the civil unrest calmed down, and we withdrew from Vietnam gradually, that this was the man we needed. I was in the service and voted for his reelection in 1972. He actually came to our base in 1973, and I got to shake his hand.

Shortly after that, the Watergate mess started, and I took that as an attempt by the press and the liberals to harm what he had accomplished. As time passed, it became apparant he had abused his office, and lied to the American people. At that point, liberal and conservative become immaterial. For the mistake it turned out to be, I voted for Carter in 1976 because of the pardon. I think the lesson is no human is a mentor that is beyond disappointing a person.

Here are some pictures I snapped of him with a brownie camera.
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Why is it every time The Doctrine of Grace, Sola Gratia or the mention of John Calvin seems the arouse the venom in so many members?

 

Or maybe it is the way in which it is mentioned.

 

Despite all Calvin's supposed character flaws, he was eminently more qualified to preach than any that has weighed in on this thread.

Would to God your sins were as trifling as his.

 

Because his name is attached to a holy doctrine and he himself is a thug, murderer, liar, and a false witness.

 

Funny, in my entire life, I never murdered or tortured anyone, neither did I publish documents that said one thing while I did another. (church and state for example of many)

 

You are not worthy of comment.