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Odin2005

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60. Calvinists completely missed the point.

Sat Nov 29, 2014, 04:58 AM

Nov 2014

Protestant "Grace alone" theology was a reaction to the pathetic absurdity of the Catholic Church telling people that people could buy salvation with indulgences, implying that god could be bribed and violated principles that went all the back to St. Augustine. The baseline Protestant belief I was raised on growing up in a Lutheran community was that faith and being a good person were signs of Salvation, not ways of bribing God to save you.

Where the Calvinists went off the rails is when they started thinking that conventional success in life, like wealth and power, were a sign of salvation and that being poor or oppressed meant that you were damned to Hell. Seriously, guys?

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