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Subject: Was John Calvin a murderer?


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Date Posted: 16:39:42 05/06/04 Thu

This would be interesting for those who studied about the influence of Calvism.

On October 27, 1553 John Calvin, the founder of Calvinism, had Michael Servetus, the Spanish physician, burned at the stake just outside of Geneva for his doctrinal heresies!(1) Hence, the originator of the popular doctrine of "once saved, always saved" (known in certain circles as "the perseverance of the saints") violated the cry of the Reformation -- "Sola Scriptura" -- by murdering a doctrinal heretic without Scriptural justification. This event was something Calvin had considered long before Servetus was even captured, for Calvin wrote his friend, Farel, on February 13, 1546 (seven years prior to Servetus' arrest) and went on record as saying:

"If he [Servetus] comes [to Geneva], I shall never let him go out alive if my authority has weight."(2)


His Ashes Cry Out Against John Calvin by Dan Corner

And the person John Calvin murdered, was the founder of Unitariasm.

Why should fundies trust this John Calvin, when he was a cold blooded murderer?

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