WHAT IS CALVINISM?

Lee Moses

John Calvin was a very bright, educated, and charismatic man. When he was only twenty-six years old, he published his landmark work, Institutes of the Christian Religion. The tremors caused by this work still reverberate throughout the modern religious world, as Calvinism (or select components thereof) is taught in virtually every Protestant denomination. However, this doctrine is rife with error that impugns the love and grace of God, and robs mankind of incentive to love and obey Him.

Calvinism is a system of Augustine's ideas

Calvinism is a system of Augustine's ideas. The concepts underlying Calvinism did not originate with Calvin. Augustine of Hippo, a man who spent his earlier years of adulthood wandering from religion to religion and philosophy to philosophy, first expressed the basic tenets underlying Calvinism. It is note worthy that many of Augustine's doctrines bear remarkable similarities to those of his previous beliefs. Especially could this be said of Manic