Comments on: On preaching chaff

By: me

me — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:23:53 +0000

As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let that person be under God’s curse! Paul- Galatians 1:9

That is, let God deal with him.

Re Calvin (note that I am not a big Calvin fan), was a product of his times. That doesn’t excuse favoring execution of heretics, but it wasn’t personally his call to burn him… once Severtus was sentenced to death, Calvin tried to convince the council not to execute him by burning. Also note that in a time when burning at the stake was not that rare, Severtus was the only heretic executed while Calvin was in Geneva.

There’s no Biblical justification for killing heretics, and we don’t excuse it. My personal approach (in line with Paul) is to just tell them to go to hell.

By: Mike Haubrich, FCD

Mike Haubrich, FCD — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:22:33 +0000

I am just curious as to what the punishment should be for preaching chaff, or as it is known in the vernacular “heresy.” Perhaps burning at the stake, or boiling in oil, or as Calvin prescribed for Severtus, being turned on a spit.

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By: Steve Martin

Steve Martin — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:45:09 +0000

That sounds pretty clear to me.

I guess God knows that when it comes to the business of salvation…we wouldn’t have a clue what to do or say on our own.

We would get it wrong every time.