Tag: John Calvin
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Calvin on Abortion
From John Calvin’s Commentary on the Last Four Books of Moses: For the fetus, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being, and it is almost a monstrous crime to rob it of the life which it has not yet begun to enjoy. If it seems more horrible to kill a […]
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After Darkness Light: A Video about John Calvin
Watch this 6-minute video from John Piper about John Calvin’s ministry in Geneva, Switzerland. HT: Desiring God
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Calvin, Lewis, and Knowing Yourself
John Calvin and C.S. Lewis seem to be worlds apart. If they had a theological debate, there’s no doubt they would have many points of disagreement. Calvin was, of course, a Reformer, and he espoused his system known as “Calvinism.” Lewis was an eclectic of sorts, a self-professed lay minister, and he was decidedly “Arminian.” Calvin was […]
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Why is the New Testament Reliable?
John Calvin Let all those acute censors, whose highest pleasure it is to banish a reverential regard of Scripture from their own and other men’s hearts, come forward; let them read the Gospel of John, and, willing or unwilling, they will find a thousand sentences which will at least arouse them from their sloth; nay, […]
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How Can We Be Sure Moses Wrote the Pentateuch?
John Calvin: I am aware of what is muttered in corners by certain miscreants, when they would display their acuteness in assailing divine truth. They ask, how do we know that Moses and the prophets wrote the books which now bear their names? Nay, they even dare to question whether there ever was a Moses. […]
JAMES PRUCH 