Yes, but he also flipped tables and drove people out with a whip that were making a mockery of the true God.
Show me where He permitted His followers to do such things? I'm sure that you know the Psalm, Jesus was enacting.
My point was that you were so quick to point the finger, using a verse that applies more to your party than ours.
My "party"?? How did this get to be a political discussion? I'll grant you that John Calvin was at least as political as he was religious (he was the virtual dictator of Geneva) but I hardly think that entitles the followers of Jesus to make this discussion into a "them" vs. "us" donnybrook. Are we or are we not one in Christ--"one faith, one Lord, one baptism"? I really have no "dog in this hunt" other than to point out the truth as I see it in Scripture. Sometimes I see that non-Calvinists are probably in error, sometimes I see that Calvinists are in error. We are ALL imperfect vessels of the Holy Spirit.
Slander? You quote a verse that calls us slanderers...
Does it? I actually hesitated over including that part of the passage because I don't believe that Calvinists are frequent slanderers. I do think that "bitterness and rage" often applies, however.
...none of my questions or Scriptures have been answered in any way that does not contradict the Word?
That is your
opinion based on what you believe the Scriptures teach--others' opinions on what the Bible teaches do not agree with yours. Doesn't it behoove both sides to "reason together" without rancor?
Seems kind of ironic, don't you think? A real 'don't try and remove the chip from your neighbor's eye when you have a plank in your own' kind of thing.
That Scripture is good in application to ALL Christians.