***When you have Calvin be his own Pope...
Calvin called all popes an anti-Christ***
Correction. He called all others who would take the job anti Christs. He willingly made the exception for himself. The Institutes are proof enough of that.
***his theological descendent Joseph Smith,
Your slurs used to have at least some stray bit of pertinence to the discussion. Now they’re just spitballs.***
Your formerly pinpoint rebuttals have become, well, wild pitches, bereft even of velocity. May I ask if you are losing your zeal for a failed theology yet?
***Joseph Smith is much more a child of Rome.***
Incorrect. Joseph Smith’s con could not have existed except for Calvin’s fantastic new theology, which drastically influenced the entire scope of his creation.
***He viewed himself to be a god, like the pope does.***
Right on the first point, wrong on the second. If you substituted Calvin’s place in Geneva, you would be correct.
***He believed himself to be infallible, like the pope does.***
I don’t recall Calvin acknowledging fault at any point in his writings, either directly or in response to another’s point. Do you know of any?
***He believed only he understood Scripture, like the pope (and the magisterium) do.***
Without the Magisterium, the individual interpretation of Scripture will lead us into Calvinism, or Mormonism, or the Jehovah’s Witnesses or the assorted Pentecostals, or the nuts down in Waco or the Raelians. The Magisterium was entrusted with the selection of Scripture.
Calvin was not.
***God willing, they both will continue to go the way of all false prophets.***
All false prophets will wind up in the same place; the Judgement of the Lord is correct. By the way, what need do the Reformed have of prophets? The self identified elite will undergo the onerous limousine ride regardless of the efforts of others and themselves, right?
Mark, you bore me.
Calvin and Joseph Smith have nothing to do with each other, and no one but you today has ever made that claim.
Without the Magisterium, the individual interpretation of Scripture will lead us into Calvinism, or Mormonism, or the Jehovah’s Witnesses or the assorted Pentecostals, or the nuts down in Waco or the Raelians. The Magisterium was entrusted with the selection of Scripture.
More idiotic lies. Yawn.