HISTORY TRIVIA John Calvin, was a principal founder of Protestantism and had great influence on the Presbyterians, Puritan Congregationalists, Baptists, and even Lutherans. Calvin had Servetus, another prominent early Protestant, arrested; and Calving wrote charges of heresy against him. Servetus had stated that there was no support in the Bible for infant baptism, and that the word trinity did not exist in the Bible, being an invention of the Roman church, and a twisting of 1 John 5:7, from one spirit to three persons. Calvins wrote the charges against him and had him arrested, resulting in Servetus being burned at the stake, slowly with green wood and burning pitch dripping down his face. Calvin also had thirty four women burned at the stake as witches accused of being responsible for a plague, while another account credits his theocracy in Geneva with 58 sentences of death. Calvin justified execution of heretics, writing: Whoever shall maintain that wrong is done to heretics and blasphemers in punishing them makes himself an accomplice in their crime and guilty as they are. There is no question here of mans authority; it is God who speaks, and clear it is what law he will have kept in the church, even to the end of the world. Wherefore does he demand of us a so extreme severity, if not to show us that due honor is not paid him, so that we spare not kin, nor blood of any, and forget all humanity when the matter is to combat for His glory. The apologists of Calvin spilling blood and forgetting all humanity point out that many other Protestants killed heretics too - (the everybody-did-it defense; better said is: all the great men of God? then were murderers.)
Posted on: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 13:27:00 +0000
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