| Calvinists & Pre-Calvinists The Hellenization of Christianity Also known as Reformed Churches which follow the teachings of Zwingli and Calvin. This is not to be confused with Martin Luther and Lutheran Churches. Go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformed Go here for a radio program against 5 point Calvinism: WinMedia or Real. Calvinist Beliefs: 1) Nobody can do anything good unless God overrides their will and forces them to do good. 2) God has selected who will go to Heaven and who will go to Hell before He created things.. 3) Jesus only paid for the penalty of sins for those God selected to go to Heaven. 4) If God wants someone to be saved then they will get saved because God makes them. 5) Those that God wants to be saved will be saved and will go to Heaven no matter what they do, how they act, regardless if they follow the Bible or not because God wills it to be so. 6) All events both good and bad were planned by God. No event can occur unless God preplanned it. 7) God created Lucifer and his angels to eventually betray Him and be His enemies. 8) There will be no Great Tribulation, Thousand Year Reign of Christ on Earth, nor a one man Antichrist who will rule the world. 9) Jesus won't return until the entire world is subdued by Christians and all nations are under the leadership of the Christian Reformed Church. 10) Confession, repentance, and acceptance is not needed to become born-again. (Note: Hit the back button to view pages exposing the Calvinist belief system as false.) The lines of thought among the "Reformed" (Calvin, Zwingli, Augustine, Origen, Constantine) churches tend to be in compliance with non-canonical books and the early heretic Origen. This early church and present-day cult movement's fallacies are solely based on a distortion of the definition of grace. Origen - the Christian Platonist - 182-251 AD � self inflicted castration http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origen OR'IGENISM, n. The doctrines or tenets of Origen, who united Platonism with christianity. Webster�s 1828 Dictionary OR'IGENIST, n. A follower of Origen of Alexandria, a celebrated christian father. The Origenists held that the souls of men have a pre-existent state; that they are holy intelligences, and sin before they are united to the body; that Christ will be crucified hereafter for the salvation of devils, &c. Webster�s 1828 Dictionary He also believed that no one could be saved unless they were baptized in water: Origen believed that water baptism was necessary for salvation: "It is not possible to receive forgiveness of sins without baptism" (Exhortation to the Martyrs 30 [A.D. 235]). Tertullian � 160-225 AD - the Montanist MON'TANIST, n. A follower of the heresiarch Montanus, a Phrygian by birth, who pretended he was inspired by the Holy Spirit and instructed in several points not revealed to the apostles. His sect sprung up in the second century. Webster�s 1828 Dictionary Montanism is very similar to Oneness Pentecostalism or Modalism http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montanism He also believed that no one could be saved unless they were baptized: "Happy is our sacrament of water, in that, by washing away the sins of our early blindness, we are set free and admitted into eternal life. . . . [But] a viper of the [Gnostic] Cainite heresy, lately conversant in this quarter, has carried away a great number with her most venomous doctrine, making it her first aim to destroy baptism�which is quite in accordance with nature, for vipers and asps . . . themselves generally do live in arid and waterless places. But we, little fishes after the example of our [Great] Fish, Jesus Christ, are born in water, nor have we safety in any other way than by permanently abiding in water. So that most monstrous creature, who had no right to teach even sound doctrine, knew full well how to kill the little fishes�by taking them away from the water!" (Baptism 1 [A.D. 203]). "Without baptism, salvation is attainable by none" (ibid., 12). "We have, indeed, a second [baptismal] font which is one with the former [water baptism]: namely, that of blood, of which the Lord says: �I am to be baptized with a baptism� [Luke 12:50], when he had already been baptized. He had come through water and blood, as John wrote [1 John 5:6], so that he might be baptized with water and glorified with blood. . . . This is the baptism which replaces that of the fountain, when it has not been received, and restores it when it has been lost" (ibid., 16). Jerome the Roman Catholic � 340-420AD Philosopher, Author & Translator of the Roman Catholic Church�s Latin Vulgate Bible Believed Augustine�s view of grace and destiny http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome St. Augustine- Platonist and Roman Catholic Bishop of Hippo - 354-430 AD Influenced by Jerome, he altered the dominant view of eschatology in his day influencing the Catholic Church to become both preterist and amillenial. He passed this tradition on to his predecessors both Catholic and Reformed. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02084a.htm http://www-personal.umich.edu/~rdwallin/syl/GreatBooks/202.W99/Augustine/AugPlaton.htm http://www.philosophypages.com/ph/augu.htm http://www.historyguide.org/ancient/lecture16b.html Augustine believed that water baptism was necessary for salvation: "There are three ways in which sins are forgiven: in baptism, in prayer, and in the greater humility of penance; yet God does not forgive sins except to the baptized" (Sermons to Catechumens on the Creed 7:15 [A.D. 395]). "I do not hesitate to put the Catholic catechumen, burning with divine love, before a baptized heretic. Even within the Catholic Church herself we put the good catechumen ahead of the wicked baptized person. . . . For Cornelius, even before his baptism, was filled up with the Holy Spirit [Acts 10:44�48], while Simon [Magus], even after his baptism, was puffed up with an unclean spirit [Acts 8:13�19]" (On Baptism, Against the Donatists 4:21:28 [A.D. 400]). "That the place of baptism is sometimes supplied by suffering is supported by a substantial argument which the same blessed Cyprian draws from the circumstance of the thief, to whom, although not baptized, it was said, �Today you shall be with me in paradise� [Luke 23:43]. Considering this over and over again, I find that not only suffering for the name of Christ can supply for that which is lacking by way of baptism, but even faith and conversion of heart [i.e., baptism of desire] if, perhaps, because of the circumstances of the time, recourse cannot be had to the celebration of the mystery of baptism" (ibid., 4:22:29). "When we speak of within and without in relation to the Church, it is the position of the heart that we must consider, not that of the body. . . . All who are within [the Church] in heart are saved in the unity of the ark [by baptism of desire]" (ibid., 5:28:39). "[According to] apostolic tradition . . . the churches of Christ hold inherently that without baptism and participation at the table of the Lord it is impossible for any man to attain either to the kingdom of God or to salvation and life eternal. This is the witness of Scripture too" (Forgiveness and the Just Deserts of Sin, and the Baptism of Infants 1:24:34 [A.D. 412]). "Those who, though they have not received the washing of regeneration, die for the confession of Christ�it avails them just as much for the forgiveness of their sins as if they had been washed in the sacred font of baptism. For he that said, �If anyone is not reborn of water and the Spirit, he will not enter the kingdom of heaven� [John 3:5], made an exception for them in that other statement in which he says no less generally, �Whoever confesses me before men, I too will confess him before my Father, who is in heaven� [Matt. 10:32]" (The City of God 13:7 [A.D. 419]). He also believed in infant baptism and believed that the water baptism saved the infant. Augustinians � includes Catholic Monastaries, Friars, Monks, and Nuns Mohammed - 570-632AD - Click here and here. Mohammedians - Muslems - Islam Huldrych(Ulrich) Zwingli - 1484-1531 - Studied scripture from the viewpoint of a humanist scholar. Expelled from college for one year. Founded the Swiss Reformed Churches. Independent from Martin Luther. Served as Roman Catholic priest for 2 years (1518-1520). Lived with a woman for 2 years before marrying her(1522-1524). Didn't allow music in church. Though Zwingli placed the Bible in the hands of the Anabaptists, they did not agree fully with his doctrine. And so, Zwingli persecuted them mercilessly with imprisonment, torture, banishment, and death. Their leader Felix Manz was drowned. Zwingli died in a battle with Catholics who opposed his rule as their spiritual and political leader. John Calvin - 1509-1564AD - The leader and founder of Calvinism. Independent from Martin Luther. Roman Catholic Church employee. Practiced infant baptism. Didn't believe in a coming Great Tribulation, one man Antichrist, and 1000 year millenial Kingdom of Christ on earth. Fifty some public executions are credited to Calvin. Cornelius Jansen Jesuits � internal Roman Catholic insurrection - had Augustinian and mystic tendencies This internal order was banished due to their secrecy and unruliness. Charles Hodges C.H. Spurgeon - Had an awesome ministry and many came to the Lord. Wrote a great daily devotional. On another good note, he believed in the rapture and that Christ would establish a thousand year kingdom on earth, which is a teaching contrary to the Catholic and Reformed Churches. John MacArthur - A leaky Calvinist who has difficulty swallowing 'limited atonement.' MacArthur is a Dispensationalist who believes in a Pre-Tribulation Rapture and a 1000 year reign on the earth. Dr. James Kennedy - I like this minister and listen to him some. I know he is Calvinist and has Augustinian tendencies but I enjoy many of his sermons. Especially those that concern the Christian foundations of America. Realize that he is a good man and good minister just as Spurgeon was but has some Hellenized beliefs like many of the afore mentioned. Also, worshippers of Aryan, Native American, Egyptian, Oriental, Celt, African, Babylonian, Roman, Greek, Norse, and Hindu gods believe(d) that all events both good and bad are the preplanned will of the gods. Some further fallacies of Calvinists include: 1) They believe their is no distinction between salvation and Holy Spirit Baptism. 2) They tend to believe that the nine gifts of the Holy Spirit including tongues was no longer needed when either after the Bible was completed or the Bible became more readily available. 3) Their belief that God won't allow anything to happen unless He wills it gives place to people thinking that someone can be born homosexual or lesbian, and even that someone can be born to be bad. 4) They do not believe the book of Revelation is literal or they think it was fulfilled in 70 AD. 5) They think God preselected who would go to Heaven and who would go to Hell. 6) They think nothing ever happens unless God wills it including Satan and man's original sin. 7) The followers of this movement do not believe the Catholic Church began in 325AD. Jeremy Brown 2002-2004 BACK |
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