There was only one instance of a heretic being burned at the stake during Calvin's time. It was not Calvin's decision to have that happen. He was just one member of the Judicial team and he voted against it, but he was overruled by the others.
But we must remember that these men were men of their times, and heresy was a capital offence, and the standard method of execution was burning at the stake. Our modern attitudes find that pretty unpleasant and unacceptable, and thank goodness that those days have passed by.
But you must remember that Christians are being beheaded, thrown off buildings and brutally murdered in Muslim countries in these days because they are considered criminal heretics by them.
Not by Reformation founders.
Is Micheal Servetus the heretic mentioned?
He simply disagreed with Calvin's doctrine.
Calvin has murdered 37 people according to the reformation society.
Other sources have the slaughter in Geneva at 55.
Calvin plagerized Augisitine of Hippo, and was influnced by his teaching.
Quote Wikipedia :
the subject of
justification by faith alone. He defined justification as "the acceptance by which God regards us as righteous whom he has received into grace."
[97] In this definition, it is clear that it is God who initiates and carries through the action and that people play no role; God is completely sovereign in salvation.
[98] Near the end of the book, Calvin describes and defends the doctrine of
predestination, a doctrine advanced by Augustine in opposition to the teachings of
Pelagius. Fellow theologians who followed the Augustinian tradition on this point included
Thomas Aquinas and Martin Luther,
[99] though Calvin's formulation of the doctrine went further than the tradition that went before him.
[100] The principle, in Calvin's words, is that "All are not created on equal terms, but some are preordained to eternal life, others to eternal damnation; and, accordingly, as each has been created for one or other of these ends, we say that he has been predestinated to life or to death."
[101]
The final book describes what he considers to be the true Church and its ministry, authority, and
sacraments. He denied the
papal claim to primacy and the accusation that the reformers were
schismatic. For Calvin, the Church was defined as the body of believers who placed Christ at its head. By definition, there was only one "catholic" or "universal" Church. Hence, he argued that the reformers "had to leave them in order that we might come to Christ."
[102] The ministers of the Church are described from a passage from
Ephesians, and they consisted of apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and doctors. Calvin regarded the first three offices as temporary, limited in their existence to the time of the New Testament. The latter two offices were established in the church in Geneva. Although Calvin respected the work of the
ecumenical councils, he considered them to be subject to God's Word found in scripture. He also believed that the civil and church authorities were separate and should not interfere with each other.
[103]
Unqoute.
To state you are a Calvinest , eludes to a follower of a man made dogma that has no value in God's Kingdom.
We are to follow Christ and Christ alone, we do not need any man teach us.
