Calvinism

The Idolatry of Calvinism

There are those who have established all of their hope of salvation upon the teachings and doctrines of a misguided theologian by the name of John Calvin. It is common to hear Calvinist go on and on, and defend this particular man who lived in the 15 hundreds!

Birth Date: July 10, 1509

Death Date: May 27, 1564

So to what credit do we give this man? Did he ever walk, or live where Jesus walked and lived? Did he ever walk and live where the apostles walked and lived? Did he ever have faith in Christ to the degree that he was fulfilling the declarations of Christ?

John 14:12Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.

You will very seldom ever hear Calvinist preach a strong message of total commitment, love, abandonment to Jesus Christ. John Calvin is their HERO more than Jesus Christ. Idolatry is a sin that many Calvinist will not repent of. Their Calvinistic doctrine of the five tulips is a mixture of some truth, filled with lies. I call it a cow pie sandwich. What is a cow pie sandwich? It is two pieces of homemade bread, with a cow pie in the middle.

You can give them Scripture after Scripture after Scripture of what Jesus boldly declared, and it seems to just fall off of them like water off a duck back. Their number one warcry is No Works, nor Works, nor Works. Yet they completely ignore that when Christ spoke to the seven churches in the book of Revelation he said over seven times: I Know Thy Works! On my, what shall be done for these poor souls who have swallowed the lie and become a worshiper of a man, instead of a lover of Jesus Christ? Only God knows where they will end up?

John Calvin

THE FATHER OF CALVINISM WAS A MURDERER

John Calvin's Insanity!

Burned Without Mercy

When Servetus knew Calvin was going to have him killed regardless of the merits of his arguments (all of which Calvin could not refute), he asked for mercy. He pleaded with Calvin to just quickly cut off his head by the sword rather than burning him at the stake, fearing he might not remain faithful under the anticipated pain.

Ignoring pleas for mercy, Calvin ordered Servetus to be burned with green wood so the suffering would be prolonged. He ordered sulfur be placed atop his head so when the flames finally reached high enough to ignite the sulfur an even more intense heat would burn his head.

Throughout the ordeal, Michael Servetus did not recant his deeply held beliefs or his innocence. On October 26 the official Council of Two Hundred ordered Servetus “to be led to Chapel and burned there alive on the next day together with his books.” Only two charges were mentioned in his sentencing–anti-Trinitarianism and anti-pedobaptism.

The law under which Servetus was condemned was the Codex of Justinian that prescribed the death penalty for the denial of the Trinity. This law was instituted by the totalitarian ecclesiastical state, whose morality was defined by the interests of the ecclesiastical state which Calvin helped establish.

Two hours before his execution, he requested an audience with Calvin who agreed and came with two of his lieutenants. He acknowledged that Servetus became “irritated against my good and saintly admonishing…. Seeing that I do not accomplish anything by exhortations, I did not want to be wiser than my Master would permit me. Therefore, following the rule of Saint Paul, I separated myself from the heretic.”

Servetus was led to his place of martyrdom by a cortege of archers upon horses. People lined the way, some of whom taunted him to recant. Two witnesses wrote that Servetus responded that he was being unjustly killed and he would pray for his accusers.

Marian Hillar in his book on Servetus describes the martyrdom. “No cruelty was spared on Servetus as his state was made of bundles of the fresh wood of live oak still green, mixed with the branches still bearing leaves. On his head, a straw crown was placed sprayed with sulfur. He was seated on a log with his body chained to a post with an iron chain, his neck was bound with four or five turns of a thick rope. This way Servetus was being fried at a slow fire for about half an hour before he died.

His last words were, “O God, save my soul; O Jesus of the eternal God, have mercy on me.”

A Counter-revolution Begun

Calvin succeeded in burning to death his innocent challenger, but in doing so ignited a greater fire of protest against both his doctrine and his intolerance of a free religious conscience.

John Calvin

 I am not a fan of John Calvin, but not because I dislike him; don't know too much about his personality, to be honest. Abusive, insulting, harsh? I am pretty sure some people could have said this about Paul the Apostle as well. He sounds pretty defensive in 2 Cor 10-13. Be that as it may, it does not automatically make Calvin heretic. Ad hominem fallacy alert?