2006-10-23 07:30:45 · 10 answers · asked by Tori C 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Bunch of bunk.
2006-10-23 07:33:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
To be honest, although I have read about John Calvin and his followers, I have forgotten most of what I read. I'll have to read it again - hang on...
OK - I read this on wiki, and after I post it, I will comment on it:
"Calvinism stresses the complete ruin of man's ethical nature against a backdrop of the sovereign grace of God in salvation. It teaches that fallen humanity is morally and spiritually unable to follow God or escape their condemnation before him and that only by divine intervention in which God must change their unwilling hearts can people be turned from rebellion to willing obedience.
In this view, all people are entirely at the mercy of God, who would be just in condemning all people for their sins but who has chosen to be merciful to some. One person is saved while another is condemned, not because of a willingness, a faith, or any other virtue in the first person, but because God sovereignly chose to have mercy on him. Although the person must believe the gospel and respond to be saved, this obedience of faith is God's gift, and thus God completely and sovereignly accomplishes the salvation of sinners."
Now here are my thoughts: I don't think this is true. If it was, then why is there a history of so many Christian parents raising children to be Christian, and so many non-Christian parents raising children that end up non-Christian? The Calvinist belief that God shows mercy on some seems rather random. Are Calvinists saying that perhaps God shows favor to certain families throughout the generations? Maybe He does, because a passage from the Bible comes to mind about God showing His love to thousands of the descendents of someone who loves and submits to Him. But showing His love and offering salvation could be two different things.
2006-10-23 07:33:02 · answer #2 · answered by Iamnotarobot (former believer) 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To tell you the truth, I don't know how Arminianism stood the test of time like it did. It should have caved in immediately with its taking of choice from God and giving it to Man, as if he has power over the Almighty. It was trounced at the Synod of Dordt, and it's humanist, arrogant thinking. I've heard their arguments, and they don't wash with what I believe the Bible says. Calvinism all the way, baby.
2006-10-24 16:53:58 · answer #3 · answered by ccrider 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its a joke. Read the book What Kind of Love is this...
it shows the many errors of Calvanism. It also shows where Calvin had people killed who disagreed with him.
2006-10-23 07:38:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think Calvin put too much emphasis on predestination, the idea that we are chosen individually by God, and there are some who are not chosen and are just lost and doomed. I don't like that.
2006-10-23 07:34:25 · answer #5 · answered by JIMBO 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe in God or predestination.....it was one of the first steps in breaking the Catholic monopoly......but John Calvin was a Protestant reformer who, nevertheless, continued to work for the Roman Catholic Inquisition.
2006-10-23 07:34:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I disagree with calvinism....while God foreknows who will accept Him and who will not, we are NOT predestined for either heaven or hell. That is in direct violation of scripture. And the scriptures that DO talk of being predestined in the context talk about after we are saved, we are predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son.....
2006-10-23 07:39:03 · answer #7 · answered by lookn2cjc 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is that the study of calvin abd hobbes?
2006-10-23 07:33:17 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I dislike the theology but I like its emphasis on rigorous self discipline and austerity.
2006-10-23 07:45:13 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He's nothing without Hobbes.
2006-10-23 07:32:27 · answer #10 · answered by Bran McMuffin 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋