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John Calvin
John Calvin was trained to be a
lawyer during the Renaissance in France.
John (Jehan) Calvin, a
strict literalist, believed Biblical scripture to be the actual incorruptible
Word of God which carried
absolute authority.
Part of that training involved the
newer humanistic methods of exegesis,
which dealt with a
text in the original language directly via historical and grammatical
analysis, as opposed to indirectly via
layers of commentators.
John Calvin legal and exegetical training
was important as he applied these exegetical
methods to the Biblical scripture.
John Calvin systemized the Protestant interpretation of
the scriptures with the publication of The Institutes of the Christian
Religion.
John
Calvin self-consciously imagined biblical narrative literally.
John Calvin taught a corrupt literal
interpretation of scripture.
John Calvin taught total depravity (people are born evil and care only
about themselves) and predestination (some people are destined to
hell, especially those who refute the dogma of total depravity and predestination
- heretics all!).
Obviously John Calvin had a flawed sense of logic.
Man is totally depraved
and yet somehow those totally depraved human beings were able to perfectly
document and accurately describe through Biblical accounts the attributes of
God?
"If there were no one to
punish, then God would be incapable of demonstrating that he was
a mysteriously vindictive God." -
John Calvin
[Theory: Calvin was a
left brain
psychopath attempting to engineer human nature. Calvin would have seen God
as mysteriously vindictive simply because in his
left brain psychopathy he would
assume that the law he
invented would have the outcome he desired.]
John Calvin made the claim that only his
interpretation of scripture was to be absolute - with stern retribution for
transgressors.
John Calvin founded the
first Protestant absolutist
theocracy in Geneva, Switzerland.
Calvinist Geneva, the "Protestant
Rome," was a totalitarian police
state with systematic subjugation of an entire populace according to a specific
doctrine - Calvinistic dogma.
1542 The
council approves John Calvin's religious regulations.
The ministry was
divided into pastors, teachers, lay (nonreligious) elders, and deacons.
The pastors governed Calvin's Church, and their permission was required
to preach in Geneva.
To control
public behavior, an elected group of pastors and elders were given the
right to search people's homes; to banish anyone from the city; to force
attendance at weekly sermons; and to ban gambling,
drinking,
dancing, and
immodest dress.
Criticism of John
Calvin and other church officials was forbidden, as were
immoral writings and books
about Catholicism.
Punishment for first offenses was usually a fine.
Repeat offenders were banished.
Extreme offenses carried
the death penalty.
John Calvin's theocratic absolutism directly caused the death
fifty-eight people who were executed and seventy-six who were banished in order
to preserve the moral order of Calvinistic dogma.
"Any sculpture or
public art was forbidden. A special permit was required to print anything for
publication. It was forbidden to
write letters abroad, and local mail was all read by a committee, coming
and going. Everyone was encouraged
to spy on everyone else, children on their parents, workers against each other,
servants against their masters." - Rafi Metz*
"Most savagely of
all were punished any offenders whose behavior
challenged Calvin's
political and spiritual infalliblity. A man who had publicly protested against
the reformer's doctrine of predestination was
mercilessly flogged at all the
crossways of the city and then expelled. A book printer who, in his cups, had
railed at Calvin was sentenced to have his tongue perforated with a
red-hot iron
before being expelled from the city. Jacques Gruet was racked and then executed
merely for having called Calvin a hypocrite." - Stephan Zweig*, The Right
To Heresy
John Calvin was instrumental in
the burning of Michael Servetus*
– the physician who first accurately discribed the circulation of
blood.
Michael Servetus and John Calvin communicated by letter
each trying to
convince the other of his theology.
Michael Servetus was denounced as a heretic by Guillaume Trie, a rich
merchant who had taken refuge in Geneva and friend of John Calvin.
Michael Servetus was convicted of
heresy by the French inquisition but
escaped before his execution
could be carried out.
Michael Servetus shortly thereafter attended
a sermon by John Calvin in Geneva and was arrested.
Michael Servetus
was found to be a heretic and condemned to be
burned alive.
The executioners tied Michael Servetus to a chair,
lowered him into the flames, then raised him up, then lowered him into the
flames again, and again, and again, so in all it took half an hour before he
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