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5 results for “John Calvin”
Clear searchEzekiel 20, child sacrifice, and the judgement of being given over
…udicial action and Israel’s wicked practice are distinguished. Rashi on Ezekiel 20:25–26. John Wesley makes the same central distinction in his notes: God did not enjoin these harmful statutes but permitted the people to make them for themselves. His explanation of their pollutio…
Read article →What the historical evidence proves—and what it does not
…rical objection is often stated in absolute terms: no Christian taught the rapture before John Nelson Darby devised it in the nineteenth century. The conclusion then follows that pretribulationism cannot be apostolic. Two questions are being confused. Did the early Church possess…
Read article →History, heresy, and the temptation of private Christianity
…writings. Heracleon wrote what may be the earliest surviving commentary on the Gospel of John. The Tripartite Tractate presents an extensive Christian theological system rather than a crude rejection of everything recognisably Christian. That proximity made Valentinianism more d…
Read article →Christianity, Islam and the verdict of the evidence
…The Trinity meant three gods. The Council of Nicaea invented the deity of Jesus. Nicaea, Calvinism and later denominational disputes might be confused with one another as though Christian history were a collection of half-remembered words rather than events separated by more tha…
Read article →The wicked husbandmen, the fruit-bearing nation, and what Jesus said afterwards
…ion about the kingdom's timing without cancelling the restoration about which they asked. Calvin famously regarded the question as deeply confused. He wrote that the apostles displayed astonishing ignorance after three years of instruction, that there were "as many errors in this…
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