John Calvin
John Calvin writes: “Further, Augustine is so much at one with me that, if I wished to write a confession of my faith, it would abundantly satisfy me to quote wholesale from his writings.” (Concerning the Eternal Predestination of God, p.63, emphasis mine)
One should not merely ask where Calvin got his “Calvinism,” but one should also ask, where did Augustine get his “Augustinianism”? If one should propose that his teachings simply sprang from the pages of Scripture, it would be incredibly naïve. One must first took to who Augustine was, and where he had come from. Augustine was a former Manichaean Gnostic.
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