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By Ruth Tucker
This post relates to Renée of France, but first things first: Michael Servetus burned at the stake. It’s a long story, and Calviin’s defenders have gone to great lengths to prove him innocent. True, Servetus was a pig-headed nuisance who challenged the doctrine of the Trinity. But did he deserve such an awful execution? Calvin had made his position clear. The writings of Servetus were “prodigious blasphemies against God” and “Those who would spare heretics and blasphemers are themselves blasphemers.”
Calvin’s role in the execution of Servetus had lasting repercussions, particularly as Puritans and others who looked to him as a role model took up the practice themselves. What if he had stood strong for the teachings of Jesus and denounced such killings? How different succeeding generations of Christians might have behaved.
This post relates to Renée of France, but first things first: Michael Servetus burned at the stake. It’s a long story, and Calviin’s defenders have gone to great lengths to prove him innocent. True, Servetus was a pig-headed nuisance who challenged the doctrine of the Trinity. But did he deserve such an awful execution? Calvin had made his position clear. The writings of Servetus were “prodigious blasphemies against God” and “Those who would spare heretics and blasphemers are themselves blasphemers.”
Calvin’s role in the execution of Servetus had lasting repercussions, particularly as Puritans and others who looked to him as a role model took up the practice themselves. What if he had stood strong for the teachings of Jesus and denounced such killings? How different succeeding generations of Christians might have behaved.
Shame on John Calvin
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I would concur with you on this issue.
I do not agree with a number of Calvins teaching, some of which are in and of themselves blasphemous and in accordance with his own application of the law and subsequent penalties, Calvin himself should have been burned at the stake if all things were even and just for all people of that day.
I do not agree with a number of Calvins teaching, some of which are in and of themselves blasphemous and in accordance with his own application of the law and subsequent penalties, Calvin himself should have been burned at the stake if all things were even and just for all people of that day.
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I have never been a big fan of John Calvin. But his teaching continue to dominate a large part of many denominations.
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