Saturday, October 23, 2010

JOHN CALVIN & COLLECTIVE SALVATION

Glenn Beck's theology states that collective salvation is a concept developed by Satan so I guess that would mean Beck thinks John Calvin was a tool of Satan.   From Bouwsma's excellent book on Calvin, page 49:
What is indisputable is the intensity of his moralism and is insistence on the universal obligation of human beings, not only to conform to the will God themselves but to reform a deviant world. He could hear God saying, "It is necessary that I be obeyed, in everything and by everyone, or I shall renounce you."
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But the problem was not, for Calvin, simply individual; every sin not only offends God but threatens the community. His anxiety on this point often brought him close to the sects. "When crime is left unpunished," he insisted, "it pollutes the whole country."

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