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发帖数: 3781 | 1 In the following pages we shall document the fact that the wide praise heape
d upon Calvin as a great exegete is badly misplaced. He taught much that was
clearly wrong and which his evangelical followers of today either don't kno
w or perhaps don't want to know. There is a great deal contained in Calvin's
writings which every true believer must admit was, at the least, serious er
ror and in some cases outright heresy.
On that account alone, Calvin's expertise as an outstanding exegete of God's
Word is suspect. Much of his teaching is warmed-over Roman Catholicism. Let
those evangelicals who praise Calvin as thoroughly biblical justify, for ex
ample, the following from his Institutes:
I believe in the Holy Catholic Church… whence flow perpetual remission of s
ins, and full restoration to eternal life. But as it is now our purpose to
discourse of the visible church, let us learn, from her single title of Moth
er, how useful, nay, how us birth, unless she nourish us at her breasts, and
, in short, keep us under her charge and government, until, divested of mort
al flesh, we become like angles…Moreover, beyond the pale of the Church no
forgiveness of sins, no salvation, can be hoped for, as Isaiah and Joel test
ify (Isaiah 37:32, Joel 2:32)… hence the abandonment of the Church is alway
s fatal. |
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