Christian Clarity Review

Proverbs 26:18,19 As a mad man who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death, So is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am not I in sport?

So long has the lie gone on that Calvinism has made western civilization the greedy monopoly capitalist system that it basically has become ( when in fact it has so become that because of absolutely no law enforcement ) that many people have quite forgotten that Calvin had a man who brought in the very foundation of such greed ( a denial of Jesus Christ in particular that He was not the Word of God equal with God and denied the Trinity as a larger argument that functionally equated anti-Christ/non-creating speech with The Word of God ..) burnt at the stake because Calvin knew what happens when lies get loose.

The Catholics had Servetus many times –and simply ask him to leave one town and go away to another or ‘misplaced’ him. The effect was that he spread his lies as he went. It took God through Calvin to put him on the pyre and light him up.

From wikipedia:

Calvin and Servetus were first brought into contact in 1546 through a common acquaintance, Jean Frellon of Lyon. They exchanged letters debating doctrine until Calvin lost patience and refused to respond; by this time Servetus had written around thirty letters to Calvin. Calvin was particularly outraged when Servetus sent him a copy of the Institutes of the Christian Religion heavily annotated with arguments pointing to errors in the book. When Servetus mentioned that he would come to Geneva if Calvin agreed, Calvin wrote a letter to Farel on 13 February 1547 noting that if Servetus were to come, he would not assure him safe conduct: “for if he came, as far as my authority goes, I would not let him leave alive.”

In 1553 when the inquisitor-general of France learned that Servetus was hiding in Vienne under an assumed name, he contacted Cardinal François de Tournon, the secretary of the archbishop of Lyon, to take up the matter. Servetus was arrested and taken in for questioning. His letters to Calvin were presented as evidence of heresy, but he denied having written them. He managed to escape from prison, and the Catholic authorities sentenced him in absentia to death by slow burning.

On his way to Italy, Servetus stopped in Geneva for unknown reasons and attended one of Calvin’s sermons in St Pierre. Calvin had him arrested and composed a list of accusations that was submitted before the court. The prosecutor was Philibert Berthelier, a member of a libertine family and son of a famous Geneva patriot, and the sessions were led by Pierre Tissot, Perrin’s brother-in-law. The libertines allowed the trial to drag on in an attempt to harass Calvin. The difficulty in using Servetus as a weapon against Calvin was that the heretical reputation of Servetus was widespread and most of the cities in Europe were observing and awaiting the outcome of the trial. This posed a dilemma for the libertines, so on 21 August the council decided to write to other Swiss churches for their opinions, thus mitigating their own responsibility for the final decision. While waiting for the responses, the council also asked Servetus if he preferred to be judged in Vienne or in Geneva. He begged to stay in Geneva. On 20 October the replies from Zürich, Basel, Bern, and Schaffhausen were read and the council condemned Servetus as a heretic. The following day he was sentenced to burning at the stake, the same sentence as in Vienne. Calvin and other ministers asked that he be beheaded instead of burnt. This plea was refused and on 27 October, Servetus was burnt alive–atop a pyre of his own books–at the Plateau of Champel at the edge of Geneva

To this hour free willers all try to make out Calvin did something wrong AND that he was simply a political figure that was “pro-greed” (!)

When lies get loose you get Pol Pot, Palestinians, Nazi Germany, Bonaparte France, the Soviet Union, Ingushtia, South Ossetia, Chechnya, Rwanda, Pakistan and Sudan. You get ‘health care for everybody’ –that is immediately rationed while death is encouraged. You get massive abortions and sterilizations against women while they actually think being sterilized or continually striking their womb is a grand political statement. Bankruptcy. Massive immorality as state mandated “freedom”.

And what is the response by those who seek day and night to enforce those lies on all? Blame Calvin!?

Without ever actually questioning whether or not they actually have free will and making a life’s work out of not noticing their non-creating character of their own speech and the consequences of that powerlessness, hordes of liars go about denigrating Calvin and Calvinism and speaking of him in purely political terms while saying “he” never did anything for the soul, only the bank. It is such a bald faced lie it is like saying Satan is the good guy who protects against greed and Calvin was the enemy for hating Satan and loving the Saints and doing all he could as God did it through him to make clear the truth of God. And behind the accusation is the acknowledgment that a truly Christian life makes for a prosperous life and society and a moral, law abiding and law upholding society. That is why Calvin is hated and lied about 24/7 by the free willers/non-new creatures in Jesus Christ.

After centuries of Christ hating and covering over that Christ hating with mere public Calvin hating, the liars have gotten things so evil that they need a scapegoat for their own failures, as if Calvin were weak and had merely worked for money. Nothing could be further from the truth. The very same people saying Calvin is the enemy are those who are pro-sodomite, pro-gambling, for legalizing drugs, prostitution/sex-slavery and the like and keeping pornography and abortion legal, plentiful and paid for by tax dollars and most particularly for the theological lies that cause and protect such evil ..the very lies that God fought against through Calvin and Calvinism.

Calvin killed what the Catholics and free willers didn’t have the stomach or the balls to complete even within their own lie of free will while their sons and daughters / Christ haters think themselves clever to supposedly find pro-homosexual and baby killing themes in the Bible ..of which Calvin was completely ignorant.

Don’t ever forget that.

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Calvin and politics seems to be all the rage these days. The liars pretend their own protectionism and cronyism ( for which Calvin would have burned them as literal heretics against God for the theological reasoning they give for their lies, murders and thefts ) is the ‘good’ while mean old Calvin and ‘his political system’ is for the “bankers” and monopolizers.

Calvinism is in fact the truth of God in Jesus Christ of new birth and the effect of the non-metaphorical Presence of God in us as new creatures distinct from fallen men. That truth has effects and one small part of merely one effect was that it created the middle class and a stable government. Those that hate the middle class and need a clean and politically easy set of opposites to set against each other as propaganda stick figures to destabilize the world then attack Calvin as if he was anti-life like they actually are.

But you can’t get out of your actual identity, no matter that you try to switch with the good guy and paint him as evil so you won’t be seen. No one can escape their actual identity. God has sealed everyone in with either themselves and Satan or themselves and Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit and the Father. You can’t actually switch with the good and fool anyone that you are not evil and you will always be part of evil as being one with anti-Christ as non-creating speech if you have not been genuinely and non-metaphorically born again in Jesus Christ.

Calvinism very definitely has political ramifications. The truth has effects the lie can’t reproduce. But do not get all wrapped up in the politicization of Christ that Satan seeks to stoke. It is important and not to be ignored for the blessing of the household in faith in Jesus Christ. You cannot separate Christ from all reality. Many will seek to drag you into a purely political argument and say something like “Calvin’s politics” “versus” “Calvin’s theology” so they won’t have to hear God’s Word as Holy Scripture. But it was all the same. The separation of church and state was NEVER about kicking Christ out of government to the extent that the individuals in government were Christians. It was about a very necessary prohibition of having ecclesiastic offices as an arm of the government –the very thing the new ‘ethicist’ want for themselves as functional ethical police and already have to a certain extent.

And we plainly see what those who hate Calvin have already done in politics and thus why they hate the truth of Calvinism for exposing them. Calvinism as simple Christianity makes plain the truth they are liars.

In all things, look only at Christ who used Calvin, not at Calvin. But see what God did in Calvin and what he did not do and both as evidence of His actual presence in Calvin. Satan loves socialism/free willism and hates Jesus Christ. The attack against the Church of the last two hundred years has been again Calvinism in the guise it wasn’t against Christ, only an “aberrant system of theology”. Look and plainly see the result in the public sphere of anti-Calvinists in government and NGO’s in the guise of being pro-Christ.

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Isaiah 57:19-21 I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him. But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.

In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen