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To: HarleyD

Obviously not a teaching Calvin lived by. And as Prov. 6:16,17 says, ‘God hates hands shedding innocent blood and the heart fabricating hurtful schemes.’ Is that judging, too?


25 posted on 06/06/2009 4:56:24 AM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: count-your-change
Please note it was not Calvin who did the sentencing-a fact you seem to be ignoring. It was all done in a legal court of law.

I'm not sure why you have this visceral hatred for Calvin. Jean Calvin was instrumental in starting over 240 churches throughout Europe and having thousands coming to know Christ in a meaningful way. His writings have been the stalwart of the Protestant faith for over 500 years and he is still being talked about and his writings are still being read-unlike many other Christians. His theology, whether people care to admit it or not, is ingrained as part of the Protestant confession of faith, including the Baptist Confession of 1642 and the Westminster Confession of 1644. Jean Calvin writings reaches back to the very earliest of church fathers of which he quotes numerously. The Systematic Theology and Institutes are the very first serious effort of putting together a comprehensive systematic theology-one that doesn't really exist elsewhere.

Most today have simply abandon the true Protestant faith for a quasi-Catholic feel good huggy-huggy God. People silly argument over whether God chooses people purposely ignores the fact that He has always called out a people onto Himself. After all, He called out the children of Israel and "chose" them for 2,000 years. DUH!!!

If people would spend more time trying to understand the scriptures and the nature of God, perhaps they would understand that it's God who calls the shots-not us.

31 posted on 06/06/2009 8:34:02 AM PDT by HarleyD
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