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 | Bah Humbug | | Join Date: May 2003 Location: Dallas, Texas
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Hence we must hold, that whosoever adulterates pure religion (and this must be the case with all who cling to their own views), make a departure from the one God. No doubt, they will allege that they have a different intention; but it is of little consequence what they intend or persuade themselves to believe, since the Holy Spirit pronounces all to be apostates, who, in the blindness of their minds, substitute demons in the place of God.
| -John Calvin, Institutes, Book I., Ch. 5. Section 13a.
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