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JOHN CALVIN : LIFE, LEGACY AND THEOLOGY -<br />
PROF. M. M. NINAN<br />
Man must be within the body of God for which God gives up his sovereignity to give space for freewill<br />
sons <strong>and</strong> daughters.<br />
Acts 17:28 "For in him we live, <strong>and</strong> move, <strong>and</strong> have our being; as certain also of your own poets have<br />
said, For we are also his offspring."<br />
If they fall out, it will remain as a pain within God. Until they are redeemed God is in agony. This is<br />
love. It is this love that is expressed on the Cross. Yes, God elects individuals <strong>and</strong> groups - not for<br />
heaven or hell, but to die for their brothers, like the Son Himself.<br />
Human fathers waits for the return of their prodigals; <strong>and</strong> how much more the Loving Heavenly<br />
Father? I have always wondered whether <strong>Calvin</strong> ever experienced the love of his father to<br />
underst<strong>and</strong> this. At the age of 12 he left his family <strong>and</strong> went with the Montmors when his father<br />
remarried. Has it got anything to do with this? Was his father a despot? <strong>Calvin</strong> himself never<br />
gave fatherly love to his children since his only child died young. Any wonder he could not even think<br />
about what a relationship a father have with his children? Why was this factor left out of the theology<br />
especially with the only definition of God as love. In general the God of <strong>Calvin</strong> very clearly reflects the<br />
Medeaval Theocratic Government to which the sovereign is the Bishop <strong>and</strong> God is a cruel person who<br />
enjoys inflicting pain <strong>and</strong> suffering to his babies <strong>and</strong> puts them through hell <strong>and</strong> fire that will never kill<br />
nor go away.<br />
https://www.gci.org/God/predestination<br />
J. Michael Feazell<br />
"The TULIP viewpoint on predestination is based on a Ptolemaic/Aristotelian concept of the way in<br />
which God is sovereign. That is, it rests on a marriage of Christianity with the earth-centered concept<br />
of the cosmos formulated by Ptolemy, a Greek astronomer, <strong>and</strong> on a concept of God that was<br />
formulated by the Greek philosopher Aristotle. It does not rest on the concept of God we can read<br />
about in the Hebrew Bible. To put it another way, it is rooted in Greek philosophy <strong>and</strong> not in God’s<br />
revelation of himself in the Bible."<br />
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