[Colofornian]

Both are filters for Christian truth...even as their degrees for accurately unveiling that truth vary. So unless you label Calvin an outright “false prophet,” then you agree with me he was used by God as a filter for truth in his generation (and beyond). If you so agree, then my parallel comparison to Moses stands. If, on the other hand, you deem him a false prophet...then since he’s been around for centuries, you must have dozens from the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries who wrote saying as much with specific evidence to boot. No, you don’t have that? Then you’re just a Johnny-come-theological-lately minor opinion monger with an ahistorical minute opinion being offered up.

[af_vet_1981]

So unless you label Calvin an outright “false prophet,” then you agree with me he was used by God as a filter for truth in his generation (and beyond).

False Dichotomy

One could agree
1. Calvin was a Gentile born almost 15 centuries after the Messiah.
2. He was neither a prophet nor an apostle.
3. He did not participate in any apostolic succession through the laying on of hands going back 15 centuries.
4. He developed a prominent strain of Protestant theology, 15 centuries after the Messiah without apostolic authority.

Calvin reminds me of the Protestant founders of the Mormon religion, albeit with less heresy, less land, and less mercy.