[UA] Calvinism Vs. Free Will

[Timothy Ferguson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ua-admin at lists.uchicago.edu [mailto:ua-admin at lists.uchicago.edu]On
> Behalf Of Emily Dresner-Thornber
>

> A generation later, a guy named John Calvin came along and got it all
> mucked up.  Being an educated man, he made the logical leap that, if you
> no longer had to go through the Church to be absolved of personal sin, you
> no longer had to go through the Church for _anything_.  If you believed in
> the literal word of Jesus Christ, Jesus would absolve you of all sin and
> you would be let into Heaven.

Actually, Luther was kinda big on this too.  The basic idea is "If God is
infinitely powerful, why does he need district management staff?"  He
implied (Luther that is) that the Church was a sort of protection racket.

If only he hadn't counselled the forcible expulsion of the Jews, I'd be very
pro-Luther.  I'd say he ascended as the Divisive Irritant and was Renounced,
coming back as Martin Luther King - but that may be a bit obvious.


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