Episode notes
Reading from John 2, John 5 - showing that we cannot trust "forefathers". In John 5, the Lord rejects false teaching of Sabbath law. In John 8, the Lord rejected false teaching of stoning people. The Lord never gave His Word to generate a manmade government or stoning laws. He simply is telling us right from wrong. God's people should never need a Civil Magistrate because we are not the world. The world are the wicked ones who do not have God as their King. We were never called to have governments like the world has. Remember 1 Samuel 8 please. Then, I go over more on John Calvin in writings by David Cloud - links below.
John 2 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%202&version=ASV&interface=print
John 5 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%205&version=ASV&interface=print
John Calvin and Process Salvation
August 20, 2020
David Cloud, Way of Life Literature, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061 866-295-4143, fbns@wayoflife.org
https://www.wayoflife.org/reports/john_calvin_and_process_salvation.php
Protestant Persecution of Baptists Copyright 2005 by David W. Cloud This edition January 2012 ISBN 978-1-58318-145-4 This book is published for free distribution in eBook format. It is available in PDF, MOBI (for Kindle, etc.), and ePUB formats from the Way of Life web site. Published by Way of Life Literature PO Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061 866-295-4143 (toll free) - fbns@wayoflife.org www.wayoflife.org Canada: Bethel Baptist Church 42
"Capital punishment was applied for many reasons. During the first five years of Calvin’s rule in the small town of Geneva, 13 people were hanged, 10 decapitated, and 35 burned. Seventy-six were cruelly driven from their houses. The prisons were so crowded that the head jailer “informed the magistrates he could not find accommodation for any more prisoners” (The Right to Heresy, p. 227). 31 People were put into prison for smiling while attending a baptism and sleeping during a sermon and playing skittles or cards and talking about business matters after a church service. They were forced to do various forms of penance for skating or praising a translation of the Bible not approved by Calvin. A man who protested Calvin’s doctrine of predestination was “mercilessly flogged at all the crossways of the city and then expelled” (The Right to Heresy, p. 230)"
https://www.wayoflife.org/free_ebooks/downloads/Protestant_Persecution_of_Baptists.pdf