John Calvin was born in France to a Catholic family, but he would become a major leader of the Protestant Reformation. His approach to religion is known as Calvinism.
One of the significant ideas in Calvinism is that some humans are predestined to salvation, meaning that believers were chosen by God to be saved.
Calvin's most influential work was Institutes of the Christian Religion in 1536. In his preface, Calvin addresses the French king and asks him to ignore what Catholic
priests have said about Calvin and his system of beliefs. Read the excerpt. Then answer the question.
Look now to our adversaries, mean the priesthood, at whose beck and pleasure others ply their enmity against us). The true religion which is delivered in the Scriptures, and which all ought to hold they readily permit
both themselves and others to be ignorant of, to neglect and despise, and they doom is of litle moment what each man believes concerning God and Christ, or disbelieves, provided he submes to the judgement of the
Church with what they calls implicit faith: not are they greatly concerned though they should see the glory of God dishonored by open blasphemies, provided not a finger is raised against the primacy of the Apostolic See
and the authority of holy mother Church Why then, do they was for the mass, purgatory, pilgrimage, and similar fotles, with such fierceness and acerbity, that though they cannot prove one of them from the word of God,
they deny godliness can be safe without faith in these things...
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