Can We Really Exercise Free Will?
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That Jesus Christ is the Savior is deception? Really? That doctrine is the gospel
Don't need to even if I wanted to (which I don't). You manage to fool yourself.
It simply reveals that God saves both the wise and stupid by human standards.
For even a dumb person can believe in Jesus Christ when presented the Gospel.
God is not concerned with our human limitations.
For He can make wise the simple if they are positive to learning God's Word.
And, even if that fails?
Once resurrected, our intelligence will skyrocket beyond that of angels.
No Christian, for that reason, has the right to be a snob as we see with some.
Grace and peace!
Calvin? Calvin never governed Geneva. He was not even a citizen. He never held citizenship or a government office in the city and was even expelled for a time. What is disturbing is how you and your ilk misrepresent history... you who loves to brag about what a great researcher you are.
"Michael Servetus, a Spaniard, physician, scientist and Bible scholar, suffered a worse fate. He was Calvin's longtime acquaintance who resisted the authority of the Roman Catholic Church. However, he angered Calvin by returning a copy of Calvin's Institutes with critical comments in the margins. So what did Calvin do? You can read his resolution from a personal letter he wrote to a friend:
“Servetus offers to come hither, if it be agreeable to me. But I am unwilling to pledge my word for his safety, for if he shall come, I shall never permit him to depart alive, provided my authority be of any avail.” - Letter to Farel, 13 February 1546
https://www.reenactingtheway.com/bl...led-and-bad-bible-interpretation-justified-it
I have noticed this propensity to misrepresent history among free willers before. They misrepresent history,
Scripture, those they disagree with, and even themselves. Calvin was against the burning at the stake of Michael
Servitus, but the governing council made the decision against his wishes for a more humane death.
Rather than have other people lose brain cells, the record is he was granted citizenship in 1559 in Geneva.
The term "governed" is not solely for used for political office.
He did not hold citizenship at the time of Servitus' execution, and Calvin had no say in the man's means
of execution despite the many free willers who wish to distort the record of history due to their CDS.
Calvin was against burning Michael Servitus at the stake but free willers claim otherwise.
The truth that Calvin was a muderous maniac and the farthest thing from a Christian like the traitorous Judas?
The author of that website is a qualified historian, he has done his research and is qualified to set forth the accurate historical record.
Bear in mind that Calvin used circular reasoning and stated many contradictory things in his writings.
Never stated he did, there you go again performing eisegesis and that is my last word to you on it.
The truth is that Calvin was against burning Michael Servitus at the stake, but free willers claim otherwise.