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Calvinism
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The theological tenets or doctrines of John Calvin (a Frenchtheologian and reformer of the 16th century) and his followers, or ofthe so-called calvinistic churches.
Calvinism meaning & definition 1 of Calvinism.
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The System of theology, defined by John Calvin, emphasizing the sovereignty of God over the free will of man, in which God undoubtedly and effectually saves His elect.
Calvinism meaning & definition 2 of Calvinism.
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A system of belief promoted by its author John Calvin based entirely on a Platonic evaluation of the letters of Paul of Tarsus. Calvin posited that Christ died for a very few people and then re-interpreted both the Old Testament and the New Testament with the idea of a predestined fate for every person as being among the elected minority or the damned majority. It does great violence to the New Testament by making it subject to a Pauline interpretation of the Old Testament. Also a totalitarian pseudo-Christian cult of the Puritan or Reformed variety. It denies free will and imposes the biblical law of Calvin's Institutes on all people.
Calvinism meaning & definition 3 of Calvinism.
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Christian creed that really makes God out to be a child abuser who favors one child above the other. The one who he does not favor is thrown on a highway full of cars and gets his child killed. Upheld by all the Fundamentalist Baptist Cults who claim that Once
Calvinism meaning & definition 4 of Calvinism.
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A theological system made up by Augustine of Hippo, further systematized by the arriving of John Calvin. It teaches double-predestination; fatalism.
Calvinism meaning & definition 5 of Calvinism.
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The Protestant theological system of John Calvin and his successors, which develops Luthers doctrine of justification by faith alone into an emphasis on the grace of God and centres on the doctrine of predestination.
Calvinism meaning & definition 6 of Calvinism.
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the Christian ideas and teachings of John Calvin, especially the belief that God controls what happens on earth:
Calvinism meaning & definition 7 of Calvinism.