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To: Gamecock; Cronos; Natural Law; Judith Anne; vladimir998; Coleus; MarkBsnr
What or FRoman Catholic FRiends always seem to forget is that Calvin was trained as a Catholic priest.

What Calvinists always seem to forget is where their bitterness originates. What's seldom talked about by any follower of Calvin is that his father and brother both worked for the bishopric of Noyon in Picardy as a treasurer and lawyer.

Calvin's father, Gerard, was involved in some financial misdeeds and refused to provide the financial records to the Bishop of Noyon . Gerard was excommunicated for his misdeeds and later on so was his son Charles.

Gerard then made John Calvin leave his theological studies to become a French Lawyer, which is very apropos considering what John learned from his father. John's ever growing bitterness against the Church for the excommunication of his father and brother forced him to leave the Church altogether.

And now you know the roots of Calvinism and its bitterness.

96 posted on 09/21/2010 5:27:17 AM PDT by Al Hitan
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Calvin? Bitter?

Don’t make me laugh, that is nothing but a Catholic caricature.


209 posted on 09/21/2010 12:46:21 PM PDT by Gamecock ( Christianity is not the movement from vice to virtue, but from virtue to Grace.)
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