Heretics should be murdered!

[plain_n_simple]

Your address means nothing right now Luke. I'm neutral on Calvin so let me read, then you can judge ok?

 

[Luke2427]

Your address means nothing right now Luke. I'm neutral on Calvin so let me read, then you can judge ok?

I'm very happy that you are reading what I hope to be sources on both sides of the issue.

But whatever you conclude about Calvin is irrelevent to what I posted about.

I posted about the error of your thinking that we should not express deep and vehement appreciation for people that God has used in our lives.

You seemed to indicate that you only appreciate JESUS.

I said that SOUNDS spiritual but it is not.

So whatever you conclude from your research, you still need to address this issue of reprimanding folks for saying great things about somebody besides Jesus.

These people who said great things about Calvin appreciate him- they know that Jesus is the source of every gift that every man, including Calvin, has ever possessed. They know that ultimately Jesus gets ALL the glory.

But they also have enough depth spiritually to know that it is GOOD, not bad, to express great appreciation for people God expects us to appreciate.

It is actually UNSPIRITUAL to say, "You people appreciate MAN!!! Not ME!!! I appreciate JESUS!!!- you man worshipers!"

I know you did not say that, but that is how it comes across to me.

 

[plain_n_simple]

Your address means nothing right now Luke.

 

[Luke2427]

Your address means nothing right now Luke.

Just saying so doesn't make it so, Simple.

 

[matt wade]

Instead it demonstrated the unChrist-like attitude of the author of the OP.

I don't think that most of us on the BB --Calvinist or non-Calvinist approach the level of godliness of the man of Geneva.

It demonstrates an unChrist-like attitude to ask questions about someone? How does your attitude reflect Christ, when you simply attack me rather than respond to the content at hand? Did Calvin make the statements? If he did, how do you deal with them? How does that make you feel about the man?

 

[agedman]

It demonstrates an unChrist-like attitude to ask questions about someone? How does your attitude reflect Christ, when you simply attack me rather than respond to the content at hand? Did Calvin make the statements? If he did, how do you deal with them? How does that make you feel about the man?

Personally, I don't "feel" about him one way or another.

People of the past have been judged by future generations who were so short of sight that they could only contextualize to their own history the right or wrong of someone in the past.

Perhaps, the frailty of being human is that children do not consider that great grandad was once also a child. The typical child thinks all things began when they were born and can only put context to happenings in the past in the light of the present.

Martin Luther was anti Semitic. So was Bach.

Both have their place in history and the church has benefited.

To put John Calvin's thoughts and feelings about folks who didn't agree with his views into today's modern age, would be like asking the she bears not to eat the children who mocked the prophet by calling him ball headed. There is something lost in the ability to understand.

 

[quantumfaith]

Just saying so doesn't make it so, Simple.

reductio ad infinitum

 

[bacustic]

Well, brother, we caught ya.

Welcome to the Baptist Board, by the way. We're glad to have you, but the rules say Presbyterians can't post in the Baptist-only sections.

Baptist, by the way, is spelled with a capital-B.

We Baptists love to fight among ourselves. It throws us off when a Presby sneaks in and starts firing at both sides. Messes with our minds.

yep, i was found out! i found it more appropriate to not capitalize the b in baptist in the same sentence as Bible. they are in no way equal. glad i could add to the fray

 

[DHK]

This OP was born in the pit of jealousy and has gone downhill. If I were a mod I'd close it. There's nothing Christlike about it.

Good idea.