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John Calvin was an important Reformation leader who taught the ideas of free will and predestination.
The protestant doctrine of predestination is mostly attributed to John Calvin, the founder of the Reformed tradition (which includes Presbyterians today). Predestination as taught by Calvin was adopted as one of the five main precepts of Reformed theology.
John Calvin, a French theologian and religious reformer, believed in the doctrine of predestination. He taught that God has predetermined who will be saved and who will be damned, regardless of human actions or merit. This belief is a key tenet of Calvinism.
John Calvin was exiled from France and settled in Geneva. He taught pre-destination as one of the elements of what would become Calvinism.
John Calvin believed predestination was the path to salvation.
John Calvin was exiled from France and settled in Geneva. He taught pre-destination as one of the elements of what would become Calvinism.
John Calvin was exiled from France and settled in Geneva. He taught pre-destination as one of the elements of what would become Calvinism.
Predestination was (and is) a part of Reformed Church Doctrine and spread with Reformed Church in Europe and America. The "founder" of Reformed Theology was John Calvin and John ran a school for reformers in Geneva. Naturally, Reformed theology was taught there and it spread as the graduates returned to their native countries and taught others. One notable example from Calvin's school was John Knox, who brought Reformed theology back to his native Scotland, from where it spread to America. (Presbyterian church, Dutch Reformed Church, Reformed Church in America, etc.)
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John Calvin, a French theologian and pastor, taught the doctrine of predestination, which posits that God saves a predetermined group of individuals known as the elect. Calvin's teachings on predestination are a key component of Reformed theology.
Predestination is the idea is that one's fate of whether he/she will go to heaven or hell is determined by God before he or she is born. This ideology was taught by Augustine of Hippo in the 4th and 5th centuries AD. It was also popularized by the theologian John Calvin in the 16th century.
John Calvin differed from Catholicism on the doctrine of predestination. In Calvin's system, since Adam's fall man no longer has any internal freedom of will. In other words, men can not repent and believe in the Gospel, they are predestined from all eternity to either heaven or hell completely independent of their actions. This system renders the entire Gospel and Christ's preaching, death, and resurrection as taught by the Catholic Church, kind of meaningless.