[Forest Keeper]

“Every heresy in the history of the Church has been either a truth exaggerated to an excess, or diminished to a defect. Calvinism, for example, had a very good first principle, which is a sound Catholic principle, namely, the absolute Sovereignty of God; but Calvin carried it so far as to rule out human merit. Bolshevism, too, is grounded on a very sound Catholic principle, which is the Brotherhood of Man, but it has exaggerated it so far as to leave no room for the Sovereignty of God. And so it is easy to fall into any of these extremes, and to lose one’s intellectual balance. The thrill is in keeping it.”- Bishop Fulton J Sheen

I think this statement does capture a core principle of the Apostolic Church, that of glorifying the merit of man.

1 Pet. 1:24 : For, “All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, (from Is. 40:6-8).

[stfassisi]

STF quoting Fulton Sheen but Calvin carried it so far as to rule out human merit.

FK-I think this statement does capture a core principle of the Apostolic Church, that of glorifying the merit of man.

How you came up with the idea of glorifying human merit out of this is beyond me?

Self denial is human merit. God does not force self denial on us,dear brother,or we would be robots.

Calvin wanted to pawn off his sins on God and say it it was part of God's will to support his extreme dualistic personality of monster and think by interpreting the Gospel according to his own will He was doing God's will.

Calvin was very muslim like in doing this because his view of God is dualistic