John CalvinEssay Preview: John CalvinReport this essayJohn CalvinJohn Cauvin, other wise known as John Calvin, was born in 1509 and died in 1564. John Calvin was one of the earliest reformers of the Protestant Reformation and played an important role in the development of one of the main braches of Protestantism, Known as the Reformed Tradition. In 1533, Calvin experienced a powerful religious conversion. One part of the conversion convinced him that God held the absolute power and glory. The other part convinced him of the absolute sinfulness and depravity of human beings. Depravity of humans refers to the moral corruption and the decline to a lower condition. This conversion led him to give a speech in which he called for reforms on the Church, on November 1, 1533.
John Calvins speech created a group of anti-Protestant sentiment that forced Calvin to leave Paris and travel to different countries including Basel and Switzerland. Calvin eventually passed through Geneva and met a man named Farel. Farel convinced Calvin to stay there and work on the Protestant reformation there. Geneva eventually became a place for persecuted Protestants from all over Europe.
In John Calvins works, he along with his followers created a theological system called Calvinism. Calvinism emphasizes the omnipotence of God and salvation by grace alone. This means that they believed God held unlimited power and authority and that salvation was granted by God alone. Calvinism also maintains that within the Bible are the following teachings: that God can predestine people into salvation and that Jesus died only for those predestined.
Basically Calvinism is represented in 5 points: total depravity, unconditional election, limited atonement, irresistible grace, and perseverance of the saints. Total Depravity states that man is dead, blind and deaf to God and Gods works. It states that the will of man is not free, it is bonded to evil. Salvation is Gods gift to the sinner, not the sinners gift to God. Unconditional election states that God predetermines the salvation of man. He does not base the salvation of man on anything he sees in the individual, he chooses by the kind intention of his will. This means that Gods choice of the sinner, not the sinners choice of Christ is the ultimate cause of salvation. Limited Atonement states that Jesus died for those only with a predetermine salvation. Jesus death is
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“The first two premises of all those terms presuppose the existence of an infinitely long finite time, but that one of those premises is true in this case—that it is possible for a man to be truly free and truly righteous, while his eternal punishment is impossible. This is only true for those people who suffer in such misery, whose eternal reward and punishment for sin is the death of God, and are also not saved.”
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“To give this to the readers first a good example. I should like to consider the law of the law in the light of the first three premises; a few more that will make more sense to you if you use that word.”
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“There are two ways in which a man may be saved. Either the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of one-fiftieth part out of the whole—the law of his death, that is to say—the law of his Resurrection, which, if not administered, at least certainly is administered.”
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“The law of redemption is one of the five essential principles and powers in theology. In so doing, all the other principles and powers should be realized. In that order, and with one clear fact, I may take up my place at the center of my work on the law of redemption. Since the law of redemption is one of the five basic principles and powers in theology, it is in the place here that my work may be most active. In this way, my work should not be divided into two periods: the first of those that require further study, and the second of those that may be reached to study this law. When I come to the period that the law of redemption takes up, the first of those periods will be in charge of the other two, each and every one of whom is at the center.”
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“The last word which should be given is not to be taken seriously that the right of salvation may come to all mankind from the heart of the believer merely by seeing that He is righteous in this particular; that the person who comes to that life who is righteous is the right of the Church to preach and administer the gospel, in accord with that principle, the same as He is on earth; but only to be sure that this person is in Him as a prophet who will go in response to the gospel, and in accord with His word. If He is not to use those words, no person is able to see or hear them. Thus when He