Read the essay... It's outstanding!
Thanks for posting.
WORTH THE READ!
Well written.
Excellent!
Excellent essay.
As with the Jews after the diaspora, Huguenots are a remnant of a faith that has nearly died.
Calvin is simply the most important voice of Protestantism. His words are all but lost to a culture more concerned with the blessings of wealth and comfort than salvation from endless damnation.
The problem with western civilization lies not in its secularism but in the cheap grace taught by others saved on the cheap.
We do not stand with the oppressed. We stand with the successful. For this we earn the eternal curse of Calvin, that we are unrepentant sinners in the hands of an angry God.
Thank you for this Interesting Read!
My favorite children's book!
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Thanks for the article, but no, there are not enough. The Jews go first, then the Christians. It's a message repeated in mosques every day in dozens of countries.
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Calvinists have had a long history of friendship towards Jews. The Calvinist Netherlands took in many Sephardic Jewish refugees, and the first Jewish settlement in America was in the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, now New York. During the English Civil War, the Anglican Cavaliers accused their Puritan Roundhead opponents of knowing the geography of the Holy land better than that of Britain. When Cromwell became Lord Protector after the Puritan victory, he permitted Jews to return England, from where they had expelled over three centuries earlier. Both Britain and many American colonies granted Jews full civil rights before Catholics received them. New York City had an operating synagogue for over a century before there was an open Catholic church. Dutch and German Reformed believers and English, Scottish, and American Presbyterians and Puritans gave their children Old Testament names.
Where Hunt and Lindsay err is in their projection of the "blood libel" against the Jews characteristic of some elements of Catholicism (nowadays confined to the anti-Vatican II traditionalists) or Luther's anti-Semitic rantings onto covenant theology. As the article attached to this thread explains, Calvin's emphasis on total depravity and the sovereignty of God took away the medieval emphasis on scapegoating the Jews for the death of Christ. Covenantal theology actually creates a greater understanding of the role of Christians as a people set apart from the world, as the Jews were. The writings of the Puritans, Presbyterians, and the Huguenots provide ample evidence of the self-identification with the Jews.
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I didn't thoroughly read the whole thing...but it sounded like he was saying John Calvin believed modern day Jews will be saved due to the pre-Christ covenant with Abraham--without faith in Christ.
I have never heard Calvin taught anything like this....which is in essence 2 ways of salvation.
Clearly covenant theology builds a greater link with the Old Testament than any other Christian theology, however, like the New Testament, and other orthodox theologies, proclaims after Messiah came, for all people, Jew and gentile alike, faith in Christ alone saves.