John Calvin and Martin Luther; ‘Eternal Security’ Proponents and Murderers at Heart

Matthew 7:15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. 16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? 17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. 19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. 20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

Matthew 7:1 Judge not, that ye be not judged. 2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

1 John 3:14 We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren.He that loveth not his brother abideth in death. 15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.

1. Martin Luther was a false teacher, an antisemitic, a persecutor and a murderer.

2. John Calvin was a false teacher, a tyrant, a persecutor and a murderer.

Both of these non-gentle men were at the forefront of a new belief after about 1,500 of Christian orthodoxy concerning whether or not a believer in Christ who had become born again could be refused entry into the Kingdom of Heaven by falling from grace. This doctrine is called ‘once saved (kept) always saved‘ or ‘eternal security of the believer’ or ‘perseverance of the saints.’ Let’s take a look at the fruit of these two men who many today revere and follow.

It seems Calvin studied the writings of the Catholic Bishop of Hippo, Augustine, much more so than those of Martin Luther, as he continually praised Augustine’s work with numerous references and quotations. Augustine’s writings, some assert, were greatly influenced by his earlier following of the Manichaeans (who followed in footsteps of the Gnostics, an early Christian heretical sect), who believed that all physical matter was totally evil, spiritual things were good, and the universe was locked in an eternal battle between those two opposing forces. The Manichaeans, who were followers of a self-styled prophet named Manes who had proclaimed himself to be the paraclete promised in John 14:16, also taught that man did not have freewill, and that people were absolutely predestined to either salvation or destruction.

Calvin’s authority in Geneva, Switzerland was practically uncontested during his final years. Initially, Luther and Calvin had mutual respect for each other. However, a doctrinal conflict later developed between Luther and Calvin on the interpretation of the Eucharist.

The following is John Calvin’s influence in the reign of terror in Geneva:

In 1536, Calvin proposed “a confession of faith” for the Genevans. In March 1537, Anabaptists (those who rejected infant baptism and believed that believers should consist only of saved and baptized believers, which were violently persecuted by Calvinists, Lutherans, and Catholics) were banished. In April 1537, at Calvins’s request, city officials were commanded to go from house to house to ensure that the inhabitants subscribe to Calvin’s Confession of faith. On October 30,1537, there was a final attempt to obtain a confession of faith from all who had not given one. On November 12, 1537, district by district, all those who had not made the confession of faith were then ordered to leave the city. In February 1545 – “Freckles” Dunanat died under torture without admitting to the crime of spreading a plague. His dead body was then dragged to the middle of town and burned. In 1545, following the incident with Dunant, several more men and women were apprehended who had “made a pact with the devil.” In March 7, 1545, two women were executed by being burned at the stake, presumably for the crime of spreading a plague. Calvin himself interceded to apparently have them executed quickly after additional time in prison. The Council followed his directive and urged the executioner to “be more diligent in cutting off the hands of malefactors.” In 1545 there were more executions under the crime of spreading a plague. The torturers carefully watched to prevent death. The means of death varied to include decapitation. Most of the tortured refused to confess, while some committed suicide in their cells to avoid torture, in which afterward the rest were handcuffed. After that one woman threw herself through a window. In 1545, Calvin had the magistrates seize Belot, an Anabaptist who was against against infant baptism, for stating that the Old Testament was abolished by the New. Belot was subsequently chained and tortured. In May 16, 1545, the last execution concerning the plaque outbreak occurred, bringing the total dead at least 7 men and 24 women. A letter from Calvin himself attests to 15 of these women being burned at the stake. It seems Calvin’s only concern was that the plague had not come to his house. In April 1546, Ami Perrin was put on trial for refusing to testify against several friends who were guilty of having danced. She was incarcerated for refusal to testify. On November 22, 1546, Calvin drew up a list of names inappropriate for baptism, insisting a name appear in the Bible, or it was inappropriate. On February 13, 1547, Calvin wrote to the man who would preside over the burning of Michael Servetus, writing: “For if he [Michael Servetus came, as far as my authority goes, I would not let him leave alive." On June 23, 1547, Several women were tried for having danced, one of which was Ami Perrin. On September 23, 1547, Francois Favre was prosecuted for having said that Calvin had proclaimed himself bishop of Geneva. Favre, Perrin, and his wife were again imprisoned. On September 27, 1548, Calvin reported his brother's wife to the consistory on SUSPICION of adultery. On October 16-18, 1548, Anne, Calvin's sister-in-law was freed, but had to kneel and ask forgiveness from both her husband and Mr. Calvin. On October, 1551, Hierome Bolsec was imprisoned for his opposition to predestination and was immediately interrogated. On December 23, 1551, Bolsec was sentenced to banishment on penalty of a public whipping if he returned. In 1552, the city council declaired that Calvin's Instituteswere above criticism. In the Spring of 1553, proofs against Michael Servetus were gathered in Geneva by Calvin's entourage. In April, 1553, Catholics were provided the evidence against Servetus, and Servetus was interrogated, but escaped. On August 13, 1553, Servetus arrived in Geneva and Calvin had him arrested and imprisoned. On September 15, 1553, fromprison Servetus writes a letter to the Council complaining that Calvin was deliberately prolonging his stay in horrible prison conditions in which he says he was being eaten alive by insects and didn't have any suitable clean or mended clothes to wear. The official charges against Servetus was the denial of the Trinity and the rejection of infant baptism. On October 27, 1553, after refusing to confess, Servetus is burned alive at the stake. In February, 1555, elections were favorable to Calvin. A riot ensued on May 16, 1555, and Perrin, who was a leader of the opposition faction, seized the baton, which symbolized the office of Syndic, giving the appearance of a coup d'etat. Perrin, along with his associate Philibert Berthelier, then fled. After the May 16 riot, Calvin called for repression. On June 3, 1555, the guilty are judged in absentia and Perrinis condemned to have his right hand cut off, which was the hand with which he grabbed the baton. He and his accomplices were condemned to decapitation, in which then the heads and Perrin's hand were to be nailed up in public and their bodies cut into four quarters. Also, the brothers Comparet received the sentence of decapitation, and their bodies were also to be quartered. All who didn't flee were executed. Claude Galloys and Girard Thomas were put in like unto a pillory in two different parts of town. Galloys had also received a sentence of having to carry a torch and ask for mercy. Berthelier's brother, Francois-Daniel, was also a victims of Calvin's repression. Mr. Calvin had justified the severity of the sentences.On March, 1556, those who broke measures barring the mixing of men and women were subsequently subjected to public humiliation in the collar, which was like unto a pillary. On December 31, 1556, Jacques Lampereur was imprisoned for making statements against edicts proposed on fornications, arguing that under the law of grace, it would be judaizingtocondemn adulterers to death. On January, 1557, Calvin's sister-in-law is imprisoned for the charge of having committed adultery. In October, 1568, two men were executed for sorcery after Calvin exhorted to pursue sorcerers in order to remove all of them from the earth. In 1568, a sorcerer admits his guilt under the torture of having his feet burned, but later recants his admission, and is banished forever from Geneva.

At least 38 people were executed during Calvin's time in Geneva, some being burned alive, while others were decapitated and quartered afterward. Most were tortured first, and many more were imprisoned and tortured, the great majority of which were people accused of sorcery for spreading the Plague. At least two men were sentenced for little more than a public denunciation of Calvin.

When Servetus came to Geneva, Calvin had him arrested. Although it seems that Calvin favored burning his opponents to death, he actually asked for Servetus to be beheaded. His plea was discarded, and they slowly and painfully burned Servetus to death.

Calvin went to Servetus, and according to Calvin, Servetushumbly asked his pardon. But Calvin declined with these words, “Think rather of crying for mercy to God Whom you have blasphemed.”

When someone said to Servetus: “Confess your crime, and God will have mercy on your soul.” Servetusreplied: “I am not guilty; I have not merited death.” And  before witnesses he publicly confessed Christ as Savior and invoked God for pardon, asked God to pardon his accusers.

During Servetus' trial, Calvin wrote: "I hope that the verdict will call for the death penalty."

From the time that Calvin had him arrested on August 14th, until his condemnation, Servetusspentthe remaining days of his life: " ... in an atrocious dungeon with no light or heat, little food, and no sanitary facilities."

While being tormented by the flames, in which they placed half green wood at his feet and a wreathstrewn with sulphur on his head used to prolong his agony, Servetuscried out with a loud voice, “Jesus Christ, You Son of the eternal God, have mercy upon me!” It took 3o long torturous minutes to render his body lifeless.

Calvin collected money from Servetus’ property for the expenses incurred in his prosecution, and went on to write a book to justify himself called, Defence of the Orthodox Faith in the Sacred Trinity.

In the book Calvin called Servetus: “detestable infidel,” “rabid magician,” “great pest,” “vomit,” “obscene dog,” “stupid,” and “ferocious beast.”

“Honor, glory, and riches shall be the reward of your pains; but above all, do not fail to rid the country of those scoundrels, who stir up the people to revolt against us. Such monsters should be exterminated, as I have exterminated Michael Servetus the Spaniard.”

Calvin also wrote: “Whoever shall now contend that it is unjust to put heretics and blasphemers to death will knowingly and willingly incur their very guilt. This is not laid down on human authority; it is God who speaks and prescribes a perpetual rule for his Church. It is not in vain that he banishes all those human affections which soften our hearts; that he commands paternal love and all the benevolent feelings between brothers, relations, and friends to cease; in a word, that he almost deprives men of their nature in order that nothing may hinder their holy zeal. Why is so implacable a severity exacted but that we may know that God is defrauded of his honor, unless the piety that is due to him be preferred to all human duties, and that when his glory is to be asserted, humanity must be almost obliterated from our memories?”

Just three months after Calvin published his justification for murdering whom he disagreed theologicaly with, Sebastian Castellion, a professor of Greek Literature from nearby Basle, wrote a pamphlet against such persecutions and murders titled, “Whether Heretics Should be Persecuted.”

Calvin answered his pamphlet this way: “A new heresy has been discovered,” he said. “We must stamp out this burst of hell-fire before it spreads over the surface of the earth.... Freedom of conscience is a doctrine of the devil.... Better to have a tyrant, however cruel, than permit everyone to do what he pleases.”

Calvin, wanting to destroy Castellion, wrote a tract called, “Calumnies of a Rapscallion,” charging Castellion a thief, rascal, and blasphemer. The tract ends with, “May God destroy you, Satan!

When Pierre Ameaux complained about Calvin's reluctant to ordain Genevans, preferring to choose pastors from French immigrants who supported Calvin's program of reform, Calvin took it as an attack on his authority as a minister and persuaded the city council to require Ameaux to walk through the town dressed in a hair shirt and begging for mercy in the public squares. Jacques Gruet was implicated in an incident in which someone had placed a placard in one of the city's churches, reading: "When too much has been endured revenge is taken." Calvin himslf consented to the torture and beheading of Gruet. He was also accused of colluding in a French plot to invade the city.

But what were the so-called crimes of Servetus? He wrote against baby baptism, and the so-called 'trinity' explanation of God.

There is no record of  baby baptism found in the entire Word of God.

The apostles, Servetus said, “did not hold the trinity or three persons...but men in later times added this.”

About the age of 21 Servetus wrote a book, On the Errors of the Trinity. He contended that the Trinity was not Biblical, but was instead an ungodly idea that came from Greek philosophers. For publishing this book he was condemned to be burned by the Catholic Church, along with his books. He fled this persecution and ended up becoming a physician, where he discovered or intuited the correct flow of blood and oxygenation through the lungs, 85 years before William Harvey of England introduced this fact.

Here is what Servetus wrote about God:

“I do not separate Christ from God more than a voice from the speaker or a beam from the sun. Christ is the voice of the speaker. He and the Father are the same thing, as the beam and the light, are the same light.”

“And because his Spirit was wholly God, he is called God, and he is called man on account of his flesh.”

“It is a surprising wonder that God has taken for Himself the body of Christ in order to make His special dwelling.”

“There is therefore a tremendous mystery in the fact that God may be united with man and the man with God.”

“God has revealed Himself to us, making Himself outwardly visible through the Word, yet internally perceptible through the spirit. Though He remains a great mystery in either case, He is yet such that humanity may see God Himself and posessHim. God was previously not visible, but now we shall see Him with His face unveiled, and, so long as we open the gate and step upon the road, we shall gaze upon Him as He shines in ourselves. It is time that we open that gate and this path of light....” (Preamble to Restoration of Christianity).

“There is nothing greater, reader, than to recognize that God has been manifested as substance, and that His divine nature has been truly communicated to mankind. It is in Christ alone that we shall fully apprehend the manifestation of God Himself through the Word” (Preamble to Restoration of Christianity).

“In Christ there is not some portion of God, but the whole totality of God, the whole fulfillment of the Word and the spirit” (Restoration of Christianity, 105).

Here is the what the bible teaches about God:

Colossians 2:9 For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form, 10 and in Him you have been made complete, and He is the head over all rule and authority;  

Colossians 1:12 Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: 13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: 14 In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins: 15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: 16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: 17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. 18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence. 19 For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell

 Hebrews 1:1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; 3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high: 4 Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. 5 For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son? 6 And again, when he bringethin the firstbegotteninto the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him. 7 And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire. 8 But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom. 9 Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. 10 And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands: 11 They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment; 12 And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail. 13 But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool?

6 Jesus saithuntohim, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. 7 If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him. 8 Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. 9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father? 10 Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. 11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake. 12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. 13 And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.

1 John 5:7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. 

1 Timothy 2: 5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; 

1 Corinthians8:6  But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.

James 2:18 Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works. 19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.

Mark 12:29 And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: 30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. 32 And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but he: 33 And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. 34 And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. And no man after that durst ask him any question.

Romans 3:30 Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith. 

Ephesians 4:4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; 5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. 

Luke 10:21 In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight. 22 All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal  

John 1:1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life; 2 (For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us 3 That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.

Malachi 2:10 Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?

Galatians 3:20 Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one

1 Samuel 2:2 There is none holy as the LORD: for there is none beside thee: neither is there any rock like our God.

Genesis 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Genesis 3:22 And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

John 8:42 Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.

John 8:55 Yet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying. 56 Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad. 57 Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham? 58 Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.

Matthew 11:25 At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes. 26 Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight. 27 All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.

John 15:23 He that hateth me hateth my Father also. 24 If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father. 25 But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause. 26 But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:

John 5:26 For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;30 I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.

John 14:23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. 24 He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me.

Here is a list of things that Martin Luther wrote or said:

"God does not work salvation for fictitious sinners. Be a sinner and sin vigorously.... Do not for a moment imagine that this life is the abiding place of justice; sin must be committed."

"Sin cannot tear you away from him [Christ], even though you commit adultery a hundred times a day and commit as many murders.”

“A large number of deaf, crippled and blind people are afflicted solely through the malice of the demon. And one must in no wise doubt that plagues, fevers and every sort of evil come from him.”

“An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects.”

“As for the demented, I hold it certain that all beings deprived of reason are thus afflicted only by the Devil.”

“As to the common people, … one has to be hard with them and see that they do their work and that under the threat of the sword and the law they comply with the observance of piety, just as you chain up wild beasts.”

“At Poltersberg, there is a lake similarly cursed. If you throw a stone into it, a dreadful storm immediately arises, and the whole neighboring district quakes to its center. ‘Tis the devils kept prisoner there.”

“At Sussen, the Devil carried off, last Good Friday, three grooms who had devoted themselves to him.”

“How often have not the demons called ‘Nix,’ drawn women and girls into the water, and there had commerce with them, with fearful consequences.”

“I almost feel like throwing Jimmy into the stove, as the priest in Kulenberg did.”

“I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist.”

“I maintain that some Jew wrote it [the Book of James] who probably heard about Christian people but never encountered any.”

“I myself saw and touched at Dessay, a child of this sort, which had no human parents, but had proceeded from the Devil. He was twelve years old, and, in outward form, exactly resembled ordinary children.”

“I should have no compassion on these witches; I should burn them all.”

“Idiots, the lame, the blind, the dumb, are men in whom the devils have established themselves: and all the physicians who heal these infirmities, as though they proceeded from natural causes, are ignorant blockheads….”

“In many countries there are particular places to which devils more especially resort. In Prussia there is an infinite number of evil spirits.”

“In Switzerland, on a high mountain, not far from Lucerne, there is a lake they call Pilate’s Pond, which the Devil has fixed upon as one of the chief residences of his evil spirits….”

“Many demons are in woods, in waters, in wildernesses, and in dark poolly places ready to hurt…people.”

“Many sweat to reconcile St. Paul and St. James, but in vain. ‘Faith justifies’ and ‘faith does not justify’ contradict each other flatly. If any one can harmonize them I will give him my doctor’s hood and let him call me a fool.”

“No gown worse becomes a than the desire to be wise.”

“Our bodies are always exposed to Satan. The maladies I suffer are not natural, but Devil’s spells.”

“Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has: it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but–more frequently than not –struggles against the Divine Word….”

“Reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed. Faith must trample underfoot all reason, sense, and understanding, and whatever it sees must be put out of sight and … know nothing but the word of God.”

“Snakes and monkeys are subjected to the demon more than other animals. Satan lives in them and possesses them. He uses them to deceive men and to injure them.”

“Some [demons] are also in the thick black clouds, which cause hail, lightning and thunder, and poison the air, the pastures and grounds.”

“The Devil can so completely assume the human form, when he wants to deceive us, that we may well lie with what seems to be a woman, of real flesh and blood, and yet all the while ’tis only the Devil in the shape of a woman. ‘Tis the same with women, who may think that a man is in bed with them, yet ’tis only the Devil; and…the result of this connection is oftentimes an imp of darkness, half mortal, half devil….”

“The Devil…clutched hold of the miserable young man…and flew off with him through the ceiling, since which time nothing has been heard of [him].”

“The Devil, too, sometimes steals human children; it is not infrequent for him to carry away infants within the first six weeks after birth, and to substitute in their place imps….”

“The fact that [the biblical book] Hebrews is not an epistle of St. Paul, or of any other apostle, is proved by what it says in chapter two….”

“The winds are nothing else but good or bad spirits. Hark! how the Devil is puffing and blowing….”

“There is no rustic so rude but that, if he dreams or fancies anything, it must be the whisper of the Holy Ghost, and he himself a prophet.”

“To be a Christian, you must pluck out the eye of reason.”

“…two devils rose from the water, and flew off through the air, crying, ‘Oh, oh, oh!’ and turning one over another, in sportive mockery….”

“We are at fault for not slaying them [the Jews].”

“We may well lie with what seems to be a woman of flesh and blood, and yet all the time it is only a devil in the shape of a woman.”

“We need not invite the Devil to our table; he is too ready to come without being asked. The air all about us is filled with demons….”

“We should throw the Epistle of James out of this school [the University of Wittenberg]….

“What shall we do with…the Jews?…I advise that all their prayer books and Talmudic writings…are to be taken from them.”

“What shall we do with…the Jews?…I advise that safe-conduct on the highways be abolished completely for the Jews.”

“What shall we do with…the Jews? I advise that their rabbis be forbidden to teach on pain of loss of life and limb.”

“What shall we do with…the Jews?…set fire to their synagogues or schools and bury and cover with dirt whatever will not burn, so that no man will ever again see a stone or cinder of them.”

“What shall we do with…the Jews?…their homes also should be razed and destroyed.”

“When I was a child there were many witches, and they bewitched both cattle and men, especially children.”

“Whoever wants to be a Christian should tear the eyes out of his reason.”

“So tenaciously should we cling to the world revealed by the Gospel, that were I to see all the Angels of Heaven coming down to me to tell me something different, not only would I not be tempted to doubt a single syllable, but I would shut my eyes and stop my ears, for they would not deserve to be either seen or heard.”

It seems to me that many of those who strongly believe against ‘Calvanism’ are willing to lay down their lives for their belief, while some of those who feel strongly in favor of their belief in ‘Calvanism’ are willing to kill you for their beliefs.

I believe people like the concept of eternal security because they love iniquity instead of the fear of the Lord, which is the beginning  of wisdom from above to learn to hate sin and depart from it. All who love the fruit thereof will eat of it, for the Lord will judge a man according to his works. – 777denny

1John 3:8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.11 For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. 12 Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.14 We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death. 15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him. 16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

(NOTE: I use article to prove a point, but do not adhere to much of the other teachings they may have)

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