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It's funny how non-Christian OPCult members keep coming on Christian threads. They make strange statements and refer to their website which like lds.org pretends to be Christian.

however, the OPC with it's own twisted 14-page manual that it uses instead of the bible (populated with "properly interpreted" excerpts from the Bible and writings by Machen) is known to attack anyone who is not a member of their 20,000 odd (and dwindling) cult.

They post things like we see the inherent Satanism of Free-Will Arminianism and John Wesley preached Universal Infant Damnation for unbaptized infants -- which is unsurprising, because Wesley preached the Gospel of Satan attacking Wesleyans and Arminians and freely attack the Christian Protestants who disagree with the OPC cultists trying to potray the OPC as " speaking for Protestants".

No wonder that the Former Orthodox Presbyterian Church (OPC) ruling elder Paul M. Elliott says that The OPC long ago ceased to proclaim the one true Gospel to the exclusion of all false gospels (115). and The Orthodox Presbyterian Church has abandoned the marks of a true church of Jesus Christ (118) and he keeps urging every OPCer to leave that cult.

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.

These are the roots of Calvinism and its bitterness.

And this bitterness is expressed in it's max in that tiny cult (of 20,000 and falling) called the OPC who took mashings of Calvinism and non-Christian caste system to form a group that is "preaching a false Gospel" (as stated by a former Elder Paul M. Elliott of the OPC) and spreading it's hatred on online forum to combat the love of Christ.

The OPC's message is of hate, unlike Christ's message which is of love

The OPC dreams of a police state like Geneva, where they attacked fellow Protestants as exemplified in

Belot, an Anabaptist was arrested for passing out tracts in Geneva and also accusing Calvin of excessive use of wine. With his books and tracts burned, he was banished from the city and told not to return on pain of hanging (J.L. Adams, The Radical Reformation, pp. 597-598).
Jacques Gruent was racked and then executed for calling Calvin a hypocrite
A man who publicly protested against the reformer's doctrine of predestination was flogged at all the crossways of the city and then expelled.
Calvin's Letter to the Marquis Paet, chamberlain to the King of Navarre, 1561. "Honour, glory, and riches shall be the reward of your pains; but above all, do not fail to rid the country of those scoundrels [Anabaptists and others], who stir up the people to revolt against us. Such monsters should be exterminated, as I have exterminated Michael Servetus the Spaniard."

"It's funny how non-Christian OPCult members keep coming on Christian threads."

I really don't find any humor in the OPCult, nor any joy for that matter. What I do find equally disgusting is the sham of Protestant unity presented by OPC practitioners. Following the Muslim tenent of "my enemy's enemy is my friend" they reach out to any other group they believe they can turn against the "greatest evil", the Catholic Church.

What's funny in an ironic way is that history has proven that, absent Catholics and the Catholic Church to hate, the OPC turns on any other rival Protestant sect with all of the zeal of the Schutzstaffel and with the same effect.

Thanks for the informative post, Cronos. Sometimes shaking out the sheets is a good thing, even if it's not Spring cleaning time. :)

And this bitterness is expressed in it's max in that tiny cult (of 20,000 and falling) called the OPC who took mashings of Calvinism and non-Christian caste system to form a group that is "preaching a false Gospel" (as stated by a former Elder Paul M. Elliott of the OPC) and spreading it's hatred on online forum to combat the love of Christ.

Excellent essay and accurate analysis.