GordonSlocum
1st November 2006, 05:16 PM
"In 1541 the reforming forces again gained control in Geneva and Calvin was invited back there. That same year he had the Ecclesiastical Ordinances promulgated. This outlined the activities of the four classes of office bearers in the Church. It provided for an association of pastors to administer discipline, a group of teachers to teach doctrine, a group of deacons to administer the work of charity and, most important of all, the consistory, composed of six ministers and twelve elders, to supervise the theology and morals of the community and to punish when necessary the wayward members of the Church by excommunication. In order to set up an effective system Calvin used the state to inflect more severe penalties. (bold red emphasis mine)
Such penalties proved to be much too sever ,fifty-eight being executed and seventy six exiled by 1546."
Source
"Christianity Through The Centuries" by Cairns and Published by Zondervan, Copy right 54, and 57
page 342
If He lived today would he be tried for Murder?
Such penalties proved to be much too sever ,fifty-eight being executed and seventy six exiled by 1546."
Source
"Christianity Through The Centuries" by Cairns and Published by Zondervan, Copy right 54, and 57
page 342
If He lived today would he be tried for Murder?