[Natural Law]

"Our job is to trust God and to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ in truth."

I noticed that nowhere do the Calvinists ever mention actually having to live the Gospels and put to practice the teachings of Jesus. What a pity they will never know the joy that comes from putting others ahead of yourself and that Salvation does not mean clawing one's self into Heaven at the expense of everyone else.

[editor-surveyor]

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PROJECTION ALERT:

” What a pity they will never know the joy that comes from putting others ahead of yourself and that Salvation does not mean clawing one’s self into Heaven at the expense of everyone else.”

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Could we just buy an indulgence like catholics do?
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[Forest Keeper]

I noticed that nowhere do the Calvinists ever mention actually having to live the Gospels and put to practice the teachings of Jesus.

Perhaps it goes without mentioning? Of course we are to practice the teachings of Christ. Here is an excerpt from Calvin's Commentaries on:

1 Pet. 4:17 : And if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?

When the faithful see that it is well with the wicked, they are necessarily tempted to be envious; and this is a very dangerous trial; for present happiness is what all desire. Hence the Spirit of God carefully dwells on this, in many places, as well as in the thirty-seventh Psalm, lest the faithful should envy the prosperity of the ungodly. The same is what Peter speaks of, for he shews that afflictions ought to be calmly borne by the children of God, when they compare the lot of others with their own. But he takes it as granted that God is the judge of the world, and that, therefore, no one can escape his hand with impunity. He hence infers, that a dreadful vengeance will soon overtake those whose condition seems now favorable. The design of what he says, as I have already stated, is to shew that the children of God should not faint under the bitterness of present evils, but that they ought, on the contrary, calmly to bear their afflictions for a short time, as the issue will be salvation, while the ungodly will have to exchange a fading and fleeting prosperity for eternal perdition.

But the argument is from the less to the greater; for if God spares not his own children whom he loves and who obey him, how dreadful will be his severity against enemies and such as are rebellious! There is, then, nothing better than to obey the Gospel, so that God may kindly correct us by his paternal hand for our salvation.