Pt 2 "A Crash Course in Calvinism: Calvinism's Contamination" (Episode 33[07/07/2025])

In this bombshell Episode, Calvinism's contamination of church history is traced back to the Gnostic Manichaean views introduced into the church by Augustine. Although unanimously condemned as heresy by the early church fathers for 400 years, these views paved the way for Calvinism, namely a deterministic/fatalistic definition of God's sovereign, micro-managing decree of literally everything. As Your Hosts(Bro. Derek Rich and Pastor Matney) will reveal, Augustine's Gnostic philosophies were smuggled into the church as orthodox in his dishonest effort to condemn as a heretic, a man named Pelagius, whose doctrine was not new to the earliest church fathers who also upheld man's free will/choice against determinism and Gnostic depravity, nor did Pelagius deny man's need for God's grace for salvation as often accused by proponents of Calvinism. In this second part of "A Crash Course in Calvinism", You will be startled to hear how the residue of "Calvinism's Contamination" has reached far beyond the issue of how men are converted, but to how the will and sovereignty of God are understood in every area.  "The Shield & Sword Podcast" is a Ministry of the FULL GOSPEL FAITH MINISTRIES.

For further reading regarding calvinism and its error, Your Hosts recommend:

"The Foundation of Augustinian - Calvinism" by Dr. Ken Wilson 

"The Myth of Pelagianism" by Dr. Ali Bonner 

"Demonic Conspiracy Known as Calvinism" by Ron Craig 

*Disclaimer - Recommendation of these volumes is in no way an endorsement by Pastor Matney or Bro. Derek Rich concerning all beliefs, either practically or doctrinally, by the authors themselves.

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