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"Calvinism As Heresy -- "Glory to God for All Things"
fatherstephen.wordpress.com/2009/06/24/calvinism-as-heresy/
[Cyril Lucaris, Patriarch of Constantinople, in the 17th century, allegedly composed a Calvinist Protestant "Confession of Faith" among the Eastern (Greek) Orthodox Church. I believe the Confession is a forgery, and was penned by Calvinist heretics, enemies of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Lucaris himself, I believe, repudiated such teachings.
Scott R. Harrington, Erie PA USA].
"In its 18 articles Lucaris professed virtually all the major doctrines of Calvinism; predestination, justification by faith alone, acceptance of only two sacraments (instead of seven, as taught by the Eastern Orthodox Church), rejection of icons, rejection of the infallibility of the church, and so on. In the Orthodox church the Confession started a controversy that culminated in 1672 in a convocation by Dositheus, patriarch of Jerusalem, of a church council that repudiated all Calvinist doctrines and reformulated Orthodox teachings in a manner intended to distinguish them from both Protestantism and Roman Catholicism.
"Decree 2 [of Confession of Dositheos, Jerusalem, 1672 AD]
"We believe the Divine and Sacred Scriptures to be God-taught; and, therefore, we ought to believe the same without doubting; yet not otherwise than as the Catholic Church has interpreted and delivered the same. For every foul heresy accepts the Divine Scriptures, but perversely interprets the same, using metaphors, and homonymies [homonyms], and sophistries of man's wisdom, counfounding what ought to be distinguished, and trifling with what [ought] not to be trifled with. For if [we were to accept Scriptures] otherwise, each man holding every day a different sense concerning them, the Catholic Church would not by the grace of Christ continue to be the Church until this day, holding the same doctrine of faith, and always identically and steadfastly believing. But rather she would be torn into innumerable parties, and subject to heresies. Neither would the church be holy, the pillar and ground of the truth, [1 Tim. 3:15] without spot or wrinkle; [Eph. 5:27] but would be the church of the malignant [Psalm 25:4] as is obvious the church of the heretics undoubtedly is, and especially that of Calvin, who are not ashamed to learn from the Church, and then to wickedly repudiate her."
"Unsettled Christianity" sanctam ecclesiam catholicam, sanctorum communionem
"The Confession of Dositheus -- Eastern Orthodoxy on Calvinism
October 19, 2010 posted by Joel
"... they [the Eastern Christians] are adamant that Calvinism must be rebuked."
God save us all from the wickedness of the Five Points of Calvinism; AMEN. Anathema, Maranatha!
5 damnable heresies
Total depravity
Unconditional Election
Limited atonement
Irresistible grace
Perseverance of the saints
Five Calvinist Lies against the Testimony of the Holy Scriptures as Rightly Divided (Interpreted) by the Church of the Living God, the Pillar and Ground of the Truth.
In Erie PA Scott R. Harrington
September 2011 AD Lord have mercy on us all in Christ Jesus (St. Titus 3:5). AMEN.
fatherstephen.wordpress.com/2009/06/24/calvinism-as-heresy/
[Cyril Lucaris, Patriarch of Constantinople, in the 17th century, allegedly composed a Calvinist Protestant "Confession of Faith" among the Eastern (Greek) Orthodox Church. I believe the Confession is a forgery, and was penned by Calvinist heretics, enemies of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Lucaris himself, I believe, repudiated such teachings.
Scott R. Harrington, Erie PA USA].
"In its 18 articles Lucaris professed virtually all the major doctrines of Calvinism; predestination, justification by faith alone, acceptance of only two sacraments (instead of seven, as taught by the Eastern Orthodox Church), rejection of icons, rejection of the infallibility of the church, and so on. In the Orthodox church the Confession started a controversy that culminated in 1672 in a convocation by Dositheus, patriarch of Jerusalem, of a church council that repudiated all Calvinist doctrines and reformulated Orthodox teachings in a manner intended to distinguish them from both Protestantism and Roman Catholicism.
"Decree 2 [of Confession of Dositheos, Jerusalem, 1672 AD]
"We believe the Divine and Sacred Scriptures to be God-taught; and, therefore, we ought to believe the same without doubting; yet not otherwise than as the Catholic Church has interpreted and delivered the same. For every foul heresy accepts the Divine Scriptures, but perversely interprets the same, using metaphors, and homonymies [homonyms], and sophistries of man's wisdom, counfounding what ought to be distinguished, and trifling with what [ought] not to be trifled with. For if [we were to accept Scriptures] otherwise, each man holding every day a different sense concerning them, the Catholic Church would not by the grace of Christ continue to be the Church until this day, holding the same doctrine of faith, and always identically and steadfastly believing. But rather she would be torn into innumerable parties, and subject to heresies. Neither would the church be holy, the pillar and ground of the truth, [1 Tim. 3:15] without spot or wrinkle; [Eph. 5:27] but would be the church of the malignant [Psalm 25:4] as is obvious the church of the heretics undoubtedly is, and especially that of Calvin, who are not ashamed to learn from the Church, and then to wickedly repudiate her."
"Unsettled Christianity" sanctam ecclesiam catholicam, sanctorum communionem
"The Confession of Dositheus -- Eastern Orthodoxy on Calvinism
October 19, 2010 posted by Joel
"... they [the Eastern Christians] are adamant that Calvinism must be rebuked."
God save us all from the wickedness of the Five Points of Calvinism; AMEN. Anathema, Maranatha!
5 damnable heresies
Total depravity
Unconditional Election
Limited atonement
Irresistible grace
Perseverance of the saints
Five Calvinist Lies against the Testimony of the Holy Scriptures as Rightly Divided (Interpreted) by the Church of the Living God, the Pillar and Ground of the Truth.
In Erie PA Scott R. Harrington
September 2011 AD Lord have mercy on us all in Christ Jesus (St. Titus 3:5). AMEN.
