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Calvin was hardly an intellectual midget, and the concept that he put forward the notion that "work led to salvation" is almost perversely wrong!
by phaemon 11y ago
Calvin was hardly an intellectual midget, and the concept that he put forward the notion that "work led to salvation" is almost perversely wrong!
- hga 11y agoIndeed. In fact, I thought one of the most notorious aspects of his theology was predestination, as Wikipedia puts it (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theology_of_John_Calvin#Predestination https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theology_of_John_Calvin#Predes...): Near the end of the Institutes, Calvin describes and defends the doctrine of predestination.... The principle, in Calvin's words, is that "All are not created on equal terms, but some are preordained to eternal life, others to eternal damnation; and, accordingly, as each has been created for one or other of these ends, we say that he has been predestinated to life or to death."