[xzins]

According to Calvin God is directly responsible for every evil act ever committed! What does the Bible say about this blasphemy

Wow. Awesome quote.

Be careful with the quotes about sects/cults. The powers that be on FR don't like sect/cult bashing. (Pardon -- we can blast away at the islamics.)

[RnMomof7]

According to Calvin God is directly responsible for every evil act ever committed

ya may want to ask him to cite his source..

[fortheDeclaration]

According to Calvin God is directly responsible for every evil act ever committed! What does the Bible say about this blasphemy Wow. Awesome quote.

Well, that is exactly what Augustine taught in his concerning the predestination of the Saints' which Calvin uses against Pighius to show that Augustine is with Calvin, not Pighius.

Although, therefore, those things which are evil, in so far as they are evil, are not good, yet it is good(emphasis mine) that there should not only be good things, but evil(emphasis mine) things also. For, unless there were this good (emphasis mine), that evil (emphasis mine) things also existed, those evil things would not be permitted by the Great and Good Omnipotent to exist at all.

This is Calvin quoting from Augustine. Paul answers that in Rom.6:1-2a

What we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid.

And in Isaiah

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil, that put darkness for light, and light for darkness, that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter (Isa,5:20)

It sounds like Augustine never did not fully shake off his oriental mysticism from his earlier days and Calvin adopted them along with the Predestination concept!