The 4,000 Year HinduCalvinism Delusion The History of Calvinism Part I - Session 7

4K HinduCalvinism Delusion
The History of Calvinism
Part I Session 7

Acts 17:11
These people were more receptive
than those in Thessalonica. They
were very willing to receive the
message, and every day they
carefully examined the Scriptures to
see if those things were so.

21st Century – Calvinists on the March
• Gnostic Websites - CARM, Got Questions, Grace to You, and Desiring
God
• “New Calvinism is not a new branch of theology or a denomination. Rather, it is a
“revival” of sorts—a revival of traditional, “old” Calvinism. The movement is sweeping
through American evangelical churches of all denominations, attracting young people
from Free Church, Episcopal, Independent, Presbyterian, and Baptist churches alike. The
Gospel Coalition, started in 2007, is the national network for the New Calvinist
movement.” https://www.gotquestions.org/new-calvinism.html
• Ed Litton – President Southern Baptist Convention
• They are winning the war because Christians don’t realize that they are even in a war.

21st Century – Calvinists on the March
• There is no defense because we already lost
• We lost 1,600 years ago
• The enemy controls every Church and every medium of communication
• (almost)

The Invention of TULIP – 1936 A.D.
• Loraine Boettner – Master’s Thesis
“You can purchase Loraine Boettner’s 8 volume set on logos.com for the
low price of $41.99. The description reads: “Loraine Boettner set forth a
clear vision for Reformed and evangelical theology for the modern era. He
articulated classic Reformed orthodoxy for a new generation and possessed
the rare gift of clearly explaining the complex principles of theology without
sacrificing academic rigor. Best-known for his volumes on the doctrine of
predestination and Roman Catholicism, Loraine Boettner explained and
popularized the Reformed faith for a broad audience…
From contemporary issues—such as just war theory—to theological
problems—such as eternal reprobation—Boettner writes with a generous
spirit and utmost fidelity to Scripture and the Reformed confessions.”
• IRS Agent

The Invention of Monergism – 1890 A.D.
• Monergism first made its appearance in The Century
Dictionary in 1890 on page 287
• https://archive.org/details/centurydictiona02whitgoog/pag
e/n288/mode/2up

• Monergism first made its appearance in The Century
Dictionary in 1890 on page 287
• Monos (single) + Ergon (work)
• MonosErgon is NOT in the bible, even once
• Jesus, Paul, John Calvin, Augustine, and Gottschalk
never once mention monergism
• Calvinists simply make stuff up, call it theology, then
award themselves university degrees honoring these
amazing intellectual nonaccomplishments
• Synergism IS in the bible – G4903 συνεργέω synergeō is
mentioned by Mark (Ch 16), Paul (Romans 8, 1 Cor 16, 2
Cor 6), and James (Ch 2)

The Invention of Arminianism – 1618 A.D.
• The Synod of Dort was assembled by the Reformed Church
of the Netherlands and met at Dordrecht
• The synod was called to settle disputes between followers of
Ioannis Calvinus and followers of Jakob Hermanszoon
• John Calvin and Jacob Arminius
• Calvinism vs Hermanszoonism sounds stupid
• Branding is of the utmost importance in marketing
• Branding gives your organization an identity, makes your
business memorable, encourages consumers to buy from
you, supports your marketing and advertising, and brings
your employees pride

• Mr. Hermanszoon was a student at Leiden from 1576 to 1582
• The synod was called to settle disputes between followers of Ioannis
Calvinus and followers of Jakob Hermanszoon
• Leiden was solidly Reformed but also had influences from Lutheran,
Zwinglian, and Anabaptist views
• One of the lead pastors, Capsapr Coolhaes, thought that civil authorities
did have some jurisdiction over church affairs, but that it was wrong to
punish and execute heretics and that all of these belief systems could unite
and in 1583 Hermanszoon was offered a doctorate by the theological
faculty at Basel, which Jakob rejected due to his age
• Hermanszoon’s first task as a Pastor was given to him by the Ecclesiastical
Court of Amsterdam and the task was to refute the teachings of Dirck
Volckertszoon Coornhert who had rejected Theodore Beza’s supralapsarian
doctrine which stated that God created some men to be damned and others
to be saved

• He went on to teach that man through grace and rebirth did not have to live
in bondage to sin and he was immediately lambasted as a Pelagian by his
interlocutors for teaching that an “unregenerate man” could feel conviction
by the Holy Spirit
• After he died, he was magically renamed Arminius and the Synod of Dort
was convened to settle the matter between Calvin and Arminius
• The followers of Hermanszoon were called Remonstrants since they
rejected the strict doctrines that John Calvin stole from Augustine
• Their opponents in the synod were called the Gomarists who followed the
Dutch Calvinist theologian Franciscus Gomarus
• These Gomarists also opposed toleration of the Roman Catholic Church,
Jews, and other Protestants

Gomar vs Remonstrant
• But before the fight began the Remonstrants were kicked out
because they claimed that the rules of the Synod were
stacked against them
• They were then literally expelled from the Netherlands
altogether and were not allowed back in until 1630
• Then, with only one side of the argument represented, the
Synod produced the Canons of Dort and the Canons of Dort
remain the theological basis of the Reformed Church of the
Netherlands and the Christian Reformed Church in North
America
– Predestination to be saved (Justified) is not conditional upon belief
– Jesus did not die for all, but only for the Elect
– They agreed that man was totally depraved
– They agreed that the grace of God is irresistible
– They agreed on the impossibility of falling from grace

Gomar vs Remonstrant
• Followers of Hermanzsoon posted publicly:
• That the doctrine of the Reformed churches concerning
predestination, and the points annexed to it, by its own
genius and necessary tendency, leads off the minds of men
from all piety and religion; that it is an opiate administered by
the flesh and the devil, and the stronghold of Satan, where he
lies in wait for all; and from which he wounds multitudes, and
mortally strikes through many with the darts both of despair
and security; that it makes God the author of sin, unjust,
tyrannical, hypocritical; that it is nothing more than
interpolated Stoicism, Manicheism, Libertinism, Turcism
• 400 years ago people had correctly identified Stoicism and
Gnosticism as the roots of Calvinism and for their opinions
they were banished from their country

The Pilgrims
• These Dutch Calvinists, together with their Geneva Bibles
(that will be important) were the Pilgrims and Puritans who
sailed to the New World and eventually settled in
Massachusetts

The Reinvention of HinduCalvinism 1509-1605 A.D.
• John Calvin lived from 1509 to 1564
• His protégé Theodore Beza lived from 1519 to 1605
• The Catholic Encyclopedia starts out by describing John Calvin, “This man, undoubtedly the
greatest of Protestant divines, and perhaps, after St. Augustine, the most perseveringly followed
by his disciples of any Western writer on theology, was born at Noyon in Picardy, France, July 10,
1509, and died at Geneva, May 27, 1564
• Jehun Cauvin was born in Noyon, Picardy France to Gerard and Jeane Cauvin
• While studying (education paid for the Roman Catholic Church) in Paris he changed his name to
its Latin form, Ioannis Calvinus
• After graduating he lived in various places outside of France under various names for some
reason

• He decided to leave France permanently and go to Strasbourg but war broke out between Francis I
and Charles V, so Ioannis Calvinus decided to make a detour to Geneva where he would eventually
become the head of state
• Stephen Hicks explains, “The city-state of Geneva, which became known as the Protestant Rome,
was also, in effect, a police state, ruled by a Consistory of five pastors and twelve lay elders, with
the bloodless figure of the dictator looming over all. In physique, temperament, and conviction,
Calvin (1509–1564) was the inverted image of the freewheeling, permissive, high-living popes
whose excesses had led to Lutheran apostasy. Frail, thin, short, and lightly bearded, with ruthless,
penetrating eyes, he was humorless and short-tempered. The slightest criticism enraged him.
Those who questioned his theology he called ‘pigs,’ ‘asses,’ ‘riffraff,’ ‘dogs,’ ‘idiots,’ and ‘stinking
beasts.’ One morning he found a poster on his pulpit accusing him of “Gross Hypocrisy.” A
suspect was arrested. No evidence was produced, but he was tortured day and night for a month
till he confessed. Screaming with pain, he was lashed to a wooden stake. Penultimately, his feet
were nailed to the wood; ultimately, he was decapitated.”

• “Calvin’s justification for this excessive rebuke reveals the mindset of all Reformation inquisitors,
Protestant and Catholic alike: ‘When the papists are so harsh and violent in defense of their
superstitions’ he asked, ‘are not Christ’s magistrates shamed to show themselves less ardent in
defense of the sure truth?’ Clearly, he would have condemned the Jesus of Matthew (5:39, 44) as a
heretic. In Calvin’s Orwellian theocracy, established in 1542, acts of God—earthquakes, lightning,
flooding—were acts of Satan. (Luther, of course, agreed.) Copernicus was branded a fraud,
attendance at church and sermons was compulsory, and Calvin himself preached at great length
three or four times a week. Refusal to take the Eucharist was a crime. The Consistory, which made
no distinction between religion and morality, could summon anyone for questioning, investigate
any charge of backsliding, and entered homes periodically to be sure no one was cheating
Calvin’s God. Legislation specified the number of dishes to be served at each meal and the color
of garments worn. What one was permitted to wear depended upon who one was, for never was a
society more class–ridden. Believing that every child of God had been foreordained, Calvin was
determined that each know his place; statutes specified the quality of dress and the activities
allowed in each class.”

• So what made Ioannis Calvinus (John Calvin) so angry that he wanted to murder people
who didn’t think like him such as Michael Servetus?
• Revenge
• John’s brother Charles Calvin (one of Gerard’s 4 sons) was accused in 1534 of denying the
Catholic dogma of the Eucharist, was excommunicated from the Church in 1536, and his
body was publicly gibbeted as that of a recusant
John Calvin’s view on Philosophy. “Human reason, therefore, neither approaches, not strives
towards, nor takes proper aim at this truth: to understand who is the true God or what He wills
to be towards us.” And: “From whence come so many labyrinths of errors in the world but
because men are led by their own understanding only into vanity and untruth?”
• Here we have John Calvin using Philosophy to argue against the use of Philosophy

• Institutes on the Christian Religion reads like a 9-year-old Gnostic just discovered the
biblical text and giving you his first impressions
• Yet Calvin is praised as a genius by modern theologians
• Here is an expert from the introduction from the Institutes: “It was Calvin preeminently who set the
pattern for the exercise of that sobriety which guards the science of exegesis against those distortions
and perversions to which allegorizing methods are ever prone to subject the interpretation and
application of Scripture. The debt we owe to Calvin in establishing sound canons of interpretation and
in thus directing the future course of exegetical study is incalculable. It is only to be lamented that too
frequently the preaching of Protestant and even Reformed communions has not been sufficiently
grounded in the hermeneutical principles which Calvin so nobly exemplified…His expositions are not
therefore afflicted with the vice of expounding particular passages without respect to the teaching of
Scripture elsewhere and without respect to the system of truth set forth in the Word of God. His
exegesis, in a word, is theologically oriented. It is this quality that lies close to that which was par
excellence his genius. However highly we assess Calvin’s exegetical talent and product, his eminence
as an exegete must not be allowed to overshadow what was, after all, his greatest gift. He was par
excellence a theologian. It was his systematizing genius preeminently that equipped him for the
prosecution and completion of his masterpiece.” – John Murray
•

John Murray continues:
“When we say that he was par excellence a theologian we must dissociate from our use of this
word every notion that is suggestive of the purely speculative. No one has ever fulminated
with more passion and eloquence against “vacuous and meteoric speculation” than has
Calvin.”
The Christian Classics Ethereal Library opines, “Calvin is regarded as one of the
Reformation's best interpreters of scripture. He frequently offers his own translations of a
passage, explaining the subtleties and nuances of his translation.”
• Remember that part about Calvin translating his own passages because that will be
important later when discussing his protégé, Theodore Beza

• The description of John’s “intellectual formation” states that “Calvin is to be understood
primarily as a Renaissance humanist who aimed to apply the novelties of humanism to
recover a biblical understanding of Christianity”
• John Calvin was heavily influenced by Stoicism and he wrote his first book on the Stoic
philosopher Seneca’s De Clementia at the age of 24
• Augustine was his primary source of theology
“Augustine is so wholly within me that I could write my entire theology out of his writings.”
• John Calvin studied Augustine, Stoicism, and was a self-taught theologian

“Calvin was Martin Luther's successor and the leader of the second wave of the Protestant
Reformation, but he adopted a much colder, more detached and intellectual view of the faith
than Luther, who advocated populism and acted with passion. Calvin's teachings were radical
and controversial to many, but after becoming head of state in Geneva, his teachings drew
crowds of Protestants. Calvin sent reformist pastors to other nations to plant Protestant
seeds. His efforts resulted in the creation of the Reformed Church, the Puritans and the
Presbyterians.”
• Calvin was on the same sheet of music about predestination as Martin Luther
• Calvinists claim that this is not of central importance to theology, but it is
• Calvin considered it a “great mystery” which is Neoplatonism
• The reason he was on the same sheet as Martin Luther is because Luther’s Monastic order
was The Order of St. Augustine

• Theodore Beza – The First Calvinist
• Studied under Melchior Wolmar who was a German Lutheran
• Learned Latin and Greek then in 1548 he fled to Geneva and joined John Calvin
• There he wrote the Greet text of the New Testament, the Latin Vulgate translation, and Beza’s
original Latin translation
• His more important version of Textus Receptus (Novum Tstamentum 4th folio edition) was
published in Geneva in 1598
• Beza took the Stephanus 1551 edition and made some "small changes" to it, nut those changes
were considered "improvements" by the scholars of the time
• Beza's 1598 text was the one most often followed by the translators of the King James Version

“The translators that produced the King James Version relied mainly, it seems, on the later editions of
Beza’s Greek New Testament, especially his 4th edition (1588-9). But also they frequently consulted
the editions of Erasmus and Stephanus and the Complutensian Polyglot. According to Scrivner
(1884), 51 out of the 252 passages which these sources differ sufficiently to affect the English
rendering, the King James Version agrees with Beza against Stephanus 113 times, with Stephanus
against Beza 59 times, and 80 times with Erasmus, or the Complutensian, or the Latin Vulgate against
Beza and Stephanus. Hence the King James Version ought to be regarded not merely as a translation
of the Textus Receptus but also as an independent variety of the Textus Receptus.” – Shawn Wright
Shawn Wright further opines, “Beza added his textual footnotes and explanatory notes,
demonstrating that the Reformed faith was distinctly biblical. His notes in the Annotations influenced
the 1560 English Bible translation, the Geneva Bible, which became the most popular Bible
translation among the Puritans. The Greek text Beza published was that used by the translators of the
1611 King James Bible.”

• Theodore Beza provided the primary translations for both the KJV and the Geneva
Bibles
• The Geneva Bibles were what the Pilgrims carried over to the New World and was
used by William Shakespeare, John Knox, John Donne, and John Bunyan who
wrote The Pilgrim’s Progress in 1678
• These translations will become important when we get to the Kansas City Shuffle

Pause to Refute a Common Calvinist Argument
"The Synod then developed the Canons which thoroughly rejected the Remonstrance
of 1610 and scripturally set forth the Reformed doctrine on these debated points, now
popularly called “the five points of Calvinism. We don’t follow John Calvin. We follow
the Canons of Dort.” – Cage-Stage Calvinist
• Makes you wonder why it isn't called Dortism? Calvinists use this argument when I
point out all of the contradictions and logical fallacies found in John’s precious
writings. Here are my responses and each point is taken from the Synod of Dort
and from The Institutes of the Christian Religion.

Dort and John Agree
1. "While the death of Christ is abundantly sufficient to expiate the sins of the whole
world, its saving efficacy is limited to the elect." – Dort
"It is the privilege of the elect to be regenerated by the Spirit of God, and then placed
under his guidance and government. Wherefore Augustine justly derides" – John
"Declaring that grace is given specially and gratuitously to the elect" – John
"Therefore, as God regenerates the elect only for ever by incorruptible seed" – John
"Spirit properly seals the forgiveness of sins in the elect only" – John
"Paul claims faith as the peculiar privilege of the elect" – John

Dort and John Agree
2. "All are so totally depraved and corrupted by sin" – Dort
"We thus see that the impurity of parents is transmitted to their children, so that all,
without exception, are originally depraved." – John
"For a heavenly Judge, even our Savior himself, declares that all are by birth vicious
and depraved" – John
"This liberty is compatible with our being depraved, the servants of sin, able to do
nothing but sin." – John

Dort and John Agree
3. "Unconditional election and faith are sovereign gifts of God." – Dort
"You now hear that all wisdom and revelation is the gift of God. What follows? “The
eyes of your understanding being enlightened.” – John
• HINDU ENLIGHTENMENT how about them apples?
"The beginning of right will and action being of faith, we must see whence faith itself
is. But since Scripture proclaims throughout that it is the free gift of God" – John
"Faith is the special gift of God" – John
"that the gift of justification (of The Elect) is not separated from regeneration, though
the two things are distinct." – John

Dort and John Agree
4. "Those thus saved God graciously preserves so that they persevere until the end" –Dort
"and, lastly, that we go on without interruption, and persevere even to the end." – John
"I trust that God, in his infinite goodness, will enable me to persevere with unruffled
patience in the course of his holy vocation." – John
"God does not work in them so as to make them will; among so many temptations and
infirmities the will itself would give way, and, consequently, they would not be able to
persevere." – John
"And this is the only reason why some persevere to the end, and others, after beginning
their course, fall away. Perseverance is the gift
of God" – John
Clearly Dort used Calvin's ideas.

The Invention of Limited Atonement – 820 A.D.
• “Limited Atonement was invented out of thin air by Gottschalk of
Orbais some 400 years after Augustine, who was then later flogged
and killed for holding his Gnostic (later termed Calvinist) ideas
“At the center of debate were the doctrines of election, predestination, and human
will. Over a period of seven years, four synods were convened. First, the Synod of
Chiersy (853) adopted a Semi-Pelagian position, affirming the teaching of Maurus
and Hincmar [Archbishop of Riems]. But the Synod of Valence (855) and the Synod
of Langress (859) took a strong Augustinian stand. Finally, in an attempt to find
unity, the conflicting parties met at Toucy in France in 860. This synod resulted in
a devastating defeat for predestinarianism in France. Gottschalk was interrogated
and ordered to recant. Standing firm, he was condemned as a heretic. He was
publicly flogged, his books were burned, and he was imprisoned in the monastery
at Hautvilliers, near Reims. There he died in 869, having, in spite of a captivity-
induced nervous breakdown, stood firm to the end. Gottschalk may be best known
for his predestinarian teaching, but as I read Lawson’s summary of his theology, I
was most impressed by his understanding of the atonement vis-à-vis
predestination. Some seven hundred years prior to Calvin’s Institutes of the
Christian Religion, Gottschalk provided the first clear statement of a definite
atonement in church history. His statement marks a major development in the
church’s understanding of the extent of the atonement.”

The Invention of Limited Atonement – 820 A.D.
• First concept of Limited Atonement
• Atonement does not exist in the Greek Testament
• Poor Gottschalk was an oblate, meaning that he was dedicated to the monastic
life by his parents
• He was actually released from his obligations, then his life-long enemy
Rabanus Maurus convinced the Carolingian emperor Louis I to force
Gottschalk back into the monastic life
• He was later murdered by Archbishop Maurus for being a Manichaean Gnostic
• Is praised to this day as a Hero of the TULIP Paradigm by Reformers

The Injection of HinduCalvinism into The Way – 420 A.D.
• The definitive work tying Augustine to John Calvin is
called The Foundations of Augustinian-Calvinism by Dr.
Ken Wilson
– Calvinists “That book has been refuted”
– If you want to refute premises do not use the codified
version of Augustine’s Conversion from Traditional Free
Choice to “non-Free Will”
• Duncan Greenlees
– The Gospel of the Prophet Mani

The Injection of HinduCalvinism into The Way – 420 A.D.
“The ‘Great Epistle to Pattiq,’ of which AnNadim tells us (No. 7 on his
list) and which is probably the ‘Fundamental Epistle” of St. Augustine
(of Hippo) and Euodius.”
• This is supposedly a letter written from the Prophet Mani to his father, Pattiq
that originally swayed Augustine to join the Manichaeans
• Augustine joined the Manichaeans as a Hearer in 372 A.D.
• Julian of Eclana in 425 A.D. accused Augustine of still holding Manichaean
views on chastity
“and they (Manichaean ‘myths’) were rightly rejected by an age which could
produce an Augustine, an Origen, and the great Neoplatonists and Stoics.”
• Here you have Augustine lumped in with Neoplatonists and Stoics
• Remember that John Calvin wrote his first book on a Stoic and appealed to
Neoplatonism when he didn’t understand a passage

Manichaean Church Org Structure
• 1 Leader Pope
• 12 Masters Cardinal
• 70 Illuminates Archbishop
• Elders/Priests (Sons of Intelligence) Bishop
• The Elect (Sons of Discretion or Sons of Secrecy)
Priest
• The Hearers (Sons of Inquiry – Catechumens) Laity

• The Elect (Sons of Discretion or Sons of Secrecy) REJECTED TO BE THE ELECT
• The Hearers (Sons of Inquiry – Catechumens)
• Saint Ambrose, the Bishop of Milan and considered by Catholics to be one of
the “four original doctors of the Church” then convinced Augustine to convert to
Christianity by telling him the Old Testament was not true, but simply allegories for
our learning
• The Gnostics hated the Tanakh (Old Testament)
• Augustine hated the Tanakh
• They particularly rejected all the violence

• Augustine eventually reverts back to his Manichaean Gnosticism
and makes himself The Elect (Fine, I’ll show them! )
• Note that he did this a decade after writing against the
Manichaeans in order to convince Church leaders to make him a
Christian Bishop

Top 30 Details about Augustine
1. “Augustine is so wholly within me that I could write my entire
theology out of his writings” – John Calvin
2. “For whoever reads my works in the order in which they were
written will perhaps discover out how I have made progress over the
course of my writings” – John Calvin
3. In Stoicism, only the “wise person” was free - This is akin to the
idea in Reformed thinking that the “enlightened” Elect somehow
magically have free will (A History of Western Philosophy (George
Allen and Unwinm, London: 1946, pp. 24-27)
4. Augustine himself singled out Stoic Providence as the one belief he
never doubted throughout his diverse philosophical-religious
journeys (Confessiones 6.5, 7, De Ordine 2.12)

5. All works are predestined, discipline and abstinence effect nothing, and the
elect are saved by knowing that they are saved. This is Gnosticism. In
Reformed thinking this is the Hindu Enlightenment event where a person
simply wakes up one day and realizes that they are “The Elect.” Salvation is
achieved. No repentance or confession is required on the part of the individual
since they were “chosen before the foundation of the world.” (Culture and
Philosophy in the Age of Plotinus (Mark Edwards. London: 2006, p.152)
6. The Gnostic god must regenerate a person before that person is able to
believe (Refutatio Omninium Haeresium, Hippolytus, 5.14.1)
7. Clement of Alexandria (200 A.D.) refuted the Gnostic Basilides’ followers
who claimed faith itself was gift from God. (Stromata, Clement, 2.3-4)
8. Gnostic Manichaeanism requires the divine being to unilaterally awaken the
“dead soul” who only then can respond to the divine being

9. Tertullian (220 A.D.) did not approve of an “innocent” infant being
baptized before responding personally to the Father’s gift of grace
(not faith) (De baptism 18)
10. Augustine was baptized into Christianity in 386 A.D. by Ambrose,
Bishop of Milan
11. The pejorative term “Pelagian” became the favorite accusation at
that time (a theological death sentence) against any person teaching a
doctrine another Christian Bishop might oppose. Calvinists use this
term to this day in debates
12. Manichaean Gnosticism eternally damned newborns based up on
created nature since they asserted that all physical matter was evil
and Augustine eternally damned newborns based on “fallen nature”
(Adam’s sin)

13. Augustine’s major premise was the Pagan idea that the Creator
receives everything he desires and this is a variant of the
philosophical mistake known as the McEar error
14. Augustine elevated God’s sovereignty as absolute and God’s
justice was trampled and the Christian Deity of love and equal justice
was replaced by the Stoic God consumed solely with absolute power
15. The Manichaean Gnostics cited John 6:65, 14:6, and Ephesians
2:1-9 as proof-texts for unconditional election
16. Before Augustine, no Christian writer had ever cited Psalm 51:5 as
proof of separation from God at physical birth

17. Augustine’s Manichaean Gnostic view of inherited birth guilt and
his Stoic view of micromanaging providence pervaded his theology
with infants being damned at birth by divine unilateral choice (De
peccatorum meritis et remissione et de batismo parvulorum, 1.29-30)
(Personal faith was no longer required for salvation)
18. Augustine did not know Greek until much later in his life
19. Augustine now taught proxy salvation, that the faith of someone
else can save you (The critical foundation of infant baptism for
salvation in Augustine’s novel theology cannot be overstated )
20. Augustine converted back to a Manichaean Gnostic proof-text
interpretation of Ephesians 2:8 wherein God regenerated the dead will
and infused faith (Wrong definition of regeneration and Regeneration
not even cited in the text)

21. All of the above is precisely why early church policy expressly
forbade ANY prior Manichaean from becoming a Christian Bishop and
why charges of Manichaeism had been brought against the early
Augustine before ordination. His many works against Manichaeism
eventually convinced church leaders (against church policy) that
Augustine’s ordination as a bishop had been safely justified. His
ordination as co-bishop with Valerius was illegal, forbidden by the
Nicene Council. (The ramifications of this decision are being felt all
throughout every church in America to this day)
22. Gnostics had used Romans 9-11 as their deterministic proof-texts
by changing the context from nations (Israel) and temporal benefits to
a context of individual eternal destinies. “The Elect” were the spiritual
ones who possessed Light particles and were empowered by God to
accept the invitation. This is currently called “regeneration” in the
Christian vernacular. (The Theory of Will in Classical Antiquity
(Albrecht Dihle, Berkely, CA: 1982, pp.151-4)

23. Irenaeus (185 A.D.) argued that the Christian Deity was superior in
power to the Gnostic god (the Calvinist God in today’s setting) since
he allowed free human choices and could still accomplish his plans
without the Stoic divine micromanaging manipulation
24. Inexplicably, Augustine Christianized Stoic Providence, which
must directly (primarily and actively) micromanage every speck of
minutia, somehow miraculously does not sovereignly control evil, but
only allows/permits it. This view demands that the perfectly holy God
who micromanages and decrees everything must also decree evil (in
some mysterious and non-culpable manner). This concept comes
straight from Stoicism and is defended by Calvinists via the
Neoplatonic appeal to “mystery.” When cornered, the
Reformed/Calvinist will run to the “mystery” defense every time

25. Augustine was preoccupied with (surprise) sexual sin, and
eventually renounced his sexual intercourse with several concubines
by vowing permanent chastity but His preoccupation with sexual sin
came from his Manichaean Gnostic background which he then
incorporated a sexual inheritance of damnation at birth into his
doctrine
26. No other early Christian Bishop or author had spent a decade with
a concubine and fathered a child, then obtained another concubine
awaiting his arranged marriage (Early Christianity in North Africa
(Edward Smithier, Cambridge: 2001, p.163)
27. Augustine redefined numerous terms such as predestination,
regeneration, the elect, original sin, grace, and free will

28. Hans Luder (Martin Luther) was an Augustinian Monk who revived
Augustine’s pagan deterministic theology and Luther accepted
Augustine’s view of Stoic sovereignty and the Manichaean Gnostic
view of total inability to respond to God (Augustine had changed faith
into a work)
29. John Calvin was heavily influenced by Stoicism and he wrote his
first book on the philosopher Seneca’s De Clementia at the age of 24
30. Augustine was the only Christian bishop in history known to have
been heavily influenced as a young man by participating in the three
most highly deterministic systems that have ever existed –
Manichaean Gnosticism, Neoplatonism, and Stoicism (Beginning with
“God is sovereign” is not a Christian, but a Stoic foundation of
philosophical theology)

Augustine = Mani
Augustine Mani (Manichaean Gnostic)
-Regeneration
-Total Depravity
-Elect (By Secret Knowledge)
1. Faith and Belief constituted works towards your salvation exercised by
free will and that if Salvation was going to be by grace and not by works,
you would have to do it without belief
2. Build an entire soteriological system based on the philosophical premise
of the human will

Gift of Pastor – Gift of Teacher
Augustine
The Gift of Teacher Defends Against Gnosticism!
“As for you, my child, be strong by the grace that is
in the Messiah Jesus. What you have heard from
me through many witnesses entrust to faithful
people who will be able to teach others as well.” 2
Timothy 2:1,2
(Outsourced to Seminaries)
Mani (Manichaean Gnostic)
-Regeneration
-Total Depravity
-Elect (By Secret Knowledge)

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