Calvin did not invent the doctrines of grace

Huh? Really? That's what you did! To turn IS one of the definitions of overthrow - which definition I posted. The people of Nineveh turned.

To what person does God not bring judgment eventually for sin? To whom does God not give forgiveness who repent?
God is doing what He always does.

Whatever God did or will do, is according to His Immutable Purpose Isa 46:10

10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:

So did God change His Mind here with this King who He said shall die ? Isa 38:1-6

In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live.

2 Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the Lord,

3 And said, Remember now, O Lord, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.

4 Then came the word of the Lord to Isaiah, saying,

5 Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the Lord, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.

6 And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend this city.

Your post proves you care. What you don't care about is proving your accusation against John Calvin.

Yes, the onus being on the claimant is old. Because it is a long lasting fact when someone makes a claim they do not substantiate at the same time.

I know if someone accused someone of being a murderer they have to prove it.

You can't and even make a protracted excuse as to why that is.
Bearing false witness is a sin. Christians know that too.

Shame on you.

It isn't unusual that people create God in the image and likeness they prefer.
What is sad is they don't realize the Bible exposes that.

Don't forget Amos 7.

Oh no! I hope they don't dig up Calvin and tell him I am a false witness. He will burn me at the stake

Shame on you for making such a ridiculous post

Like I said, don't be discouraged. People that haven't read those passages are not going to believe those who have.

God could not be called merciful if God was incapable by nature of changing his mind.

God does not change from being all that defines God. That does not mean God cannot relent or change his mind. The Bible shows he does.
Those who have not read that fact don't know it as fact.


And I've been here a short time but long enough to know, don't discount the possibility some argue contrary to scripture just to keep an argument going and see how long someone will try to change their mind. When they appear and post as one who is immutable. 😉

Shame on you for trolling a Christian forum.

I won't be reading you further.

Just a few highlights of Calvinism:

1. god hates the non-elect

2. All are not created on equal terms, but some are preordained to eternal life, others to eternal damnation; (John Calvin)

3. Jesus did not die for the sins of all mankind

4. god drags people to regeneration and they do not need to know the Gospel, since they are the elect.

5. god plays favorites

6. god is the author of evil in the world for his purpose to magnify and glorify himself as the ultimate puppet master.

7. god holds men accountable when they never had a choice

well, perhaps not as Christian as you think if you make comments like you have to me. I wrote about Calvin (I'm not done) but directly attack me and continue to do so. smh...remember now that you are not posting to me anymore (YAY)

Calvin did not play nice.....he simply put aside any scripture he disagreed with. (somewhat like what is going on in this thread)


John Calvin’s interpretation of the Bible justified the murder of his theological opponents. He himself did not cut off any heads or light any fires that burned human heretics alive, but John Calvin’s preaching from the Old and New Testaments claimed those capital punishments aligned with God’s interests.

How so? Calvin did not believe all Old Covenant laws had been set aside by the New Covenant Jesus inaugurated. He didn't buy into the plain sense of Hebrews: “God has made the first covenant obsolete” (Hebrews 8:13). He maneuvered around Paul’s conclusion: “the Law became a tutor to lead us to Christ and now that faith has come we are no longer under a tutor” (Galatians 3:24-25; cf. Rom 10:4). Calvin dismissed this data from the New Testament and decided the moral laws in the Old Covenant laws of the Torah still applied. And killing people who perverted his pure doctrine was a moral necessity.

Calvin specifically justified capital punishment of heretics with Leviticus 24:16. “The one who blasphemes the name of the Lord should be put to death; all the congregation must stone him. Any foreigner or native who blasphemes the Name should be put to death.”

Jesus’ teaching to “love your enemies” didn’t stop Calvin from approving and promoting the death of his theological enemies. And Paul’s instructions for dealing with people who theologically disagree with you were equally ignored: “A servant of the Lord must not quarrel but must be kind to everyone, be able to teach, and be patient with difficult people. Gently instruct those who oppose the truth. Perhaps God will change those people’s hearts, and they will learn the truth” (2 Timothy 2:24-25). Calvin did not patiently discuss his differences with people who promoted competing ideas. Calvin requested beheadings, made death threats, and praised God for orchestrating the torture of heretics.

Calvin spelled out his theologically reinforced vengeance in a personal letter:
Calvin believed God made sure criminals didn’t die quickly when tortured. This vengeful attitude and his support for outdated Old Covenant laws that legislated capital punishment for competing theologians that challenged his preferred doctrines look more like ISIS than Jesus.

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Personal correspondence and city council records betray John Calvin’s extraordinary influence in Geneva. Although he was asked to leave in 1538 when he enforced his strict moral standards and pushed for the church’s independent power to excommunicate people, Genevan officials invited him to return in 1541 to resolve church divisions. Upon his return, the city council approved his Ecclesiastical Ordinances that included the establishment of the Consistory. The Consistory, a church court that oversaw the discipline of the citizens of Geneva, met every Thursday to review cases (This book is a chronicle of the Consistory’s records from 1542-1544.) John Calvin led the court. Although the Consistory did not have the power to imprison, exile, or kill those who were guilty, Calvin could still convince the city magistrates to wield such power when his theological opponents contradicted him.

When Jacques Gruet, a theologian with differing views, placed a letter in Calvin’s pulpit calling him a hypocrite, he was arrested, tortured for a month and beheaded on July 26, 1547. Gruet's own theological book was later found and burned along with his house while his wife was thrown out into the street to watch.

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:
The next time Servetus attended Calvin's Sunday preaching service on a visit, Calvin had him arrested and charged with heresy. The 38 official charges included rejection of the Trinity and infant baptism. The city magistrates condemned him to death. Calvin pleaded for Servetus to be beheaded instead of the more brutal method of burning at the stake, but to no avail. Some people see Calvin’s compassion in pursuing a more humane method of death, but ultimately he supported killing Servetus and all such heretics.

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from dogg:
Absolutely.

Cain had a choice to make.

You are right, if he were a corpse and unable to make a decision God would not have demanded it.

Calvinism missed it on this.

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On October 27, 1553, green wood was used for the fire so Servetus would be slowly baked alive from the feet upward. For 30 minutes he screamed for mercy and prayed to Jesus as the fire worked its way up his body to burn the theology book strapped to his chest as a symbol of his heresy. Calvin summarized the execution this way:

How could such torture be condoned? In November 1552 the Geneva Council declared Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion to be a "holy doctrine which no man might speak against." Disagreeing with Calvin’s view of God was a violation warranting the death penalty according to the way John Calvin interpreted Leviticus 24:16. The Geneva city council records describe one verdict where a man who publicly protested against John Calvin’s doctrine of predestination was flogged at all the city’s main intersections and then expelled (“The Minutes Book of the Geneva City Council, 1541-59,” translated by Stefan Zweig, Erasmus: The Right to Heresy). You did not get to disagree with Calvin in this town.


John Calvin followed Augustine’s biblical justification for burning heretics. Augustine excused extreme measures through his interpretation of Jesus’ Great Banquet parable in Luke 14:16-24. When the master could not fill up his banquet in the parable, he commanded his servants in Luke 14:23 “to compel people to come so that my house will be filled.” Augustine and Calvin believed burning heretics would “compel” more people to enter their house of God. Interpreting “compulsion” as a license to kill without consideration for Jesus’ other teaching to “love your enemies” is a major hermeneutical error. Any part of Jesus’ teaching should be interpreted in light of the whole.

Nothing funny about the way Calvin handled those who did not agree with his interpretation of scripture. There is so much about Calvin that can be found. I don't need to post it all nor do I need to prove it when Calvin's own letters and degrees prove it.

Where is there any indication of John Calvin there?

There's only Snoop Dog.

God showed him grace because of his prayer. God did not lie. Hezekiah was set to die, but God intervened and added 15 years to his life. Prayer works!

Did God change His Mind is what I asked you.

Does it matter? It's all predetermined anyway, so basically you are questioning God and not anyone else.

Round and round and round it goes and where it stops....well when it hits predetermined stop

Yes it matters.