[TruthTalk] Christian Perfection

[Judy Taylor]

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 06:29:36 -0400 Judy Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Oh Gary! I agree with your premise by why Calvin's Institutes?   you agree with that premise and disagree with Calvin? it figures, but Calvin is very radical; e.g.,  Mormans deny the premise and Calvin, but cozy up to Protestants DavidM classifies Mormans as Protestants, but fortunately terms his knowledge imperfect but as Calvin discusses, such imperfection is rooted in a terminal blind bias toward God, multifacted--for this, against that, but always revolving around 'me', etc.  think a minute; didn't you ever wonder how such ingrained blindness could give rise to 'moral perfection'?  Calvin did; and he wrote on the subject, partic in the early part of the Institutes, easily one of the ten most influential comments ever written--his book is  ~500 y/o and people are still talkin' about it:)    jt: I know Gary, sometimes I wonder if more people follow Calvin than follow Jesus.  He has influenced Presbyterians with their "predestination" and the Baptists with their "once saved, always saved" the man is very controversial. I can't understand why people would follow a person who had an opponent burned alive - some demonstration of love. One thing I'll say for him - the man had an ego.   judyt