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>>21331700
>you can't not accept his authority.
Based

>Where did he go wrong tradcat bros?
Seriously, where did he go wrong? Taking God's eternity and pure actuality into account, his theology makes perfect sense. All attempts at refuting him just amount to "muh freewill", and "loving God can't be scary".

Uhm, hello, it's Based Calvin, being based and correct about everything yet again.

I always thought the name Calvin came from his name but the Romans had a family called Calvinus.

yes

>>18071745
A lot of lay theologians in this thread. Gotta teach some of you a lesson.

>>18071790
>Pharaoh was not an innocent or godly man.
This is true but it's hardly an argument. Even with a heart as hard as his it was truly divine intervention that led to his extreme abstinence. The vast amount of miracles as well as curses would have changed the most hardent sinner yet, due to God's hand restricting him he did not repent:
>In the Lord’s hand the king’s heart is a stream of water that he channels toward all who please him.
Proverbs 21:1

>Pharaoh hardened his own heart
Yes, we are very well aware that people can harden their own hearts but I think what's most important is that God hardened pharaohs heart first and even before Moses asked the Pharaoh to let the people go. We read in exodus 7:1-3 it states:
>Then the Lord said to Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet. You are to say everything I command you, and your brother Aaron is to tell Pharaoh to let the Israelites go out of his country. But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and though I multiply my signs and wonders in Egypt,
This is before Moses had done any miracle or sign to the pharaoh but God simply tells Moses to ask the pharaoh to let the people of isreal God but specifically in verse 3 he tells him a head of time that he will not agree to this request and we are told that it is becuase God had hardened his heart.

>>17730437
>read Romans
>become Calvinist

Is this heresy?

John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, III.4:

>As men are ordained to eternal life through the providence of God, it likewise is part of that providence to permit some to fall away from that end; this is called reprobation. Thus, as predestination is a part of providence, in regard to those ordained to eternal salvation, so reprobation is a part of providence in regard to those who turn aside from that end. Hence reprobation implies not only foreknowledge, but also something more, as does providence. Therefore, as predestination includes the will to confer grace and glory; so also reprobation includes the will to permit a person to fall into sin, and to impose the punishment of damnation on account of that sin.