History ping...
A veritable Medieval morality play.
Servetus, surely aware of Calvin's previous lack of clarity on the subject, bombarded him with letters insisting on unorthodox conceptions more radical than those he had presented a decade and more ago. Calvin replied with increasing impatience and asperity. Servetus sent Calvin a manuscript of his yet unpublished Restitutio. Calvin reciprocated by sending a copy of the Institutio. Servetus returned it with abusive annotations.
Sounds like FreeRepublic.
Cordially,
**Calvin asked that Servetus be mercifully beheaded.**
Huh?
Is Zarwacki mercifully beheading captured 'infidels' in Iraq? I hope he doesn't start burning people at the stake, like the 'godly' Council of Geneva chose to do.
And Mr. Farel, that was witness to the execution, saying that had Servetus only have called on "Jesus, the Eternal Son", his life might have been spared.
Well, I guess Mr. Farel must have forgotten the words of Peter, who answered the Lord's question about his own identity: "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God."
Yes, it's obvious that the 'pharisees' were alive and still very religious in 1553.