Historical Figures

1 He was a hater of the Good Message (Gospel) and went as far as to proclaim Bar Kochba as the 'messiah'. [1] [2] [3]

2 He is most probably responsible for the manipulation of the Hebrew ('Proto-Masoretic') text (< 1% of total text) used later for the Masoretic texts (= ~91% of our Bibles, except the Eastern Orthodox Church). [1] [2] [3] [4]

The manipulations include:

• Falsification of 64% of the begetting ages in the Gen 5 & 11 genealogies (~4000 instead of 5500 BC). [see study 'Septuagint']
• Distortion of many prophecies pointing to CHRIST. [see study 'Septuagint']
• Deletion of the patriarch of the Samaritans, Cainan, based on their hate of the Samaritans [see Key Findings #5.5].
• Concealment of Cain's sin (which reflected also the sin of the Rabbis -sacrilege and greediness- as called out by Jesus in Luk 11:39). Gen 4:7 in the Greek OT reads: 'Hast thou not sinned if thou hast brought it rightly, but not rightly divided it?'. The manipulated text reads: 'If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door'. [see study 'Septuagint' for more details on all the previous points]

3 He condemned the public-, but favored a private reading of the Apocrypha; he even made frequent use of the book of Sirach / Ecclesiasticus. [1]

4 The highly problematic 'Oral Torah' (Mishnah, part of extra-biblical Talmud) was -predominantly- inspired by Akiba. Rabbi Johanan bar Nappaḥa (199–279 AD): "Our Mishnah comes directly from Rabbis [several names mentioned]; but they all took Akiva for a model in their works and followed him." [1]

5 He taught a purgatory of 12 months, long before the later Roman Catholic Church would adopt this heretical practice. [1] [2] [3]

1 Heretical teaching of the preexistence of souls: ~When G-d created the world, the souls which had previously existed without bodies became incarnate.~    [1] [2]

2 Key figure in bringing the Apocrypha into our Bibles. He used apocryphal books indiscriminately with those of Scripture as sources for dogmatic proof texts, and cited as inspired / Scripture: Baruch, Judith, Maccabees (plural), Tobith, Wisdom (of Solomon). He only discriminated against the Pseudepigrapha, which he called Apocrypha in the sense of being hidden / secret. [1] [2]

3 He excluded the books of James, 2 Peter, and 2&3 John from his canon. [1]

4 He misplaced the Mount of Transfiguration to Mt. Tabor, which is south of Samaria on Jesus' journey to Jerusalem (Luk 9:52) and therefore the wrong location. [1]

5 A key contribution to the monastic practice of Lectio Divina came from Origen in the 3rd century, after whom Ambrose taught them to Augustine. Lectio Divina was first established in the 6th century by Benedict of Nursia and was then formalized as a four-step process by the Carthusian monk Guigo II during the 12th century. 

In the 20th century, the constitution 'Dei verbum' of the Second Vatican Council recommended Lectio Divina to the general public and its importance was affirmed by Pope Benedict XVI at the start of the 21st century. [1]

6 Universalist. Quote: "All creatures - including perhaps Satan- might eventually be reconciled to G-d somewhere in eternity." [1] [2]

7 He speculated that heavenly bodies are living creatures, referring in an ultra-literal way to passages such as Job 25:5, 38:7 or Psa 148:24.

8 Ransom-Theorist (~Jesus was paying the devil to release us~). [1]

9 He taught Purgatory. [1]

10 The first hints of Catholic Mariology occur precisely in the writings of Origen, who lived in Alexandria / Egypt, which happened to be the focal point of Isis worship, a mother-goddess religion similar to Catholicism. 

The veneration of Mary started there in the 3rd century and the term 'Theotokos' was -first- used and probably even coined by Origen (!!!). It was made official doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church in 431 AD through the Council of Ephesus. [1] [2]

11 Pope Dionysius of Alexandria became one of the foremost proponents of Origen's theology. [1] 

1 [310 AD] Constantine had a vision where the gods Apo**o and Victo**a appeared to him. The god Apo**o also promised him victory. [1]

2 [312 AD] Constantine had a possibly real, but clearly satanic vision (satanic because a military invasion was contrary to the New Covenant teachings of CHRIST; see 1Thes 5:20-21), where he saw during the daylight the sign of a cross of light in the heavens above the sun, bearing the inscription 'By this conquer / in this victory' (in the Greek original ΕΝ ΤΟΥΤⲰ ΝΙΚΑ - en touto nika; nike = victory & goddess; Strong's 3528 and 3529). 

Later he had a dream in which ~Christ~ told him to construct a military standard formation in the form of a cross. After he was successful in his march to Rome, he erroneously believed that THEOS had given him victory and began showering blessings on the Christian church and its leaders.  [1] [2] [3]

3 [313 AD] While pretending / being mistaken to have become a Christian (he refused to be baptized until his deathbed), he was a Universalist and fierce defender of Polytheism. His Edict of Milan reads: "[We resolve] to grant both to the Christians and to all men freedom to follow the religion which they choose, so whatever heavenly divinity exists may be favorably inclined to us ..."

[317 AD] His coins also continued to display images of traditional Roman gods - Ju**ter, M**s, and in particular the sun god, Sol In***tus. He abolished neither the Altar of Victory in the Senate nor the Ve**al Virgins who tended the sacred fire of the goddess Ve*a.

[328 AD] Even worse, he later constructed new temples and a forum in Constantinople, and the Column of Constantine, dedicated in 330 AD, depicted him wearing the seven-point radiate crown of the solar deities He**os or Apo**lo.  [1] [2] [3]

4 While the Christian church had always considered it heretical to pay salaries to church leaders, it now reconsidered the matter and decided to accept Constantine's offer after he started to rebuild church buildings and 'legalized' ~Christianity~. 

This step opened the door for a merging of the church with the state and the true birth of the Roman Catholic Church in 313 AD, which had already been active through their first bishops after the impersonated letters of Ignatius had coined that third church office in the 2nd c. AD. Now the Roman Catholic Church began to rapidly expand under their suddenly unlimited possibilities and the financial support by the Roman government.

Soon later the distinctions between Christians and non-Christians became blurred and the 'church' was for the first time in history full of fair-weather converts and unregenerate persons, while this was previously the exception. [1]

5 Up to Constantine, Christians had held their services rather in private homes or homes wholly converted into 'prayer houses'. Now lavish church buildings rivaling the magnificence of pagan temples were constructed in order to impress pagans and make easy converts. [1]

6 Constantine's church initiated the use of images in 'Christian' worship, a practise utterly loathsome to the early Christians. [1]

7 [321 AD] Constantine declared Sunday as the official day of rest for the Roman Catholic Church, and indirectly abolished the Christian Weekly Sabbath (leading 'Christians' had up to that point held both the Sabbath and Sunday as holy days (5+2  instead of the biblical 6+1) and are jointly responsible through their laissez-faire attitude for losing the Sabbath to Constantine and the RCC). [1] [2]

8 [325 AD] He orchestrated the first church-wide council in history, the Council of Nicea which lasted 2 months and produced the first church-wide creed to be signed under compulsion. He banished into exile the 5 local church representatives who would not sign the creed. 

The council established laws that specifically gave certain bishops, called 'metropolitans', authority over other churches, clearly in contradiction to the biblical teaching where only CHRIST is Head over local assemblies. Constantine organized the bishops' seats in principal cities and according to his administrative & governmental units, called dioceses, a term very well associated until today with the Roman Catholic Church. In 366 AD, only 53 years after Constantine's 'conversion', this development culminated in the first Pope of Rome.

While Christians previously considered Special Revelation to have ceased with the Apostles, Constantine heretically proclaimed the findings of his committee of bishops to be new Special Revelations.

Subsequent creeds contributed significantly to the adulteration of apostolic Christian doctrine, e.g. the Council of Ephesus (431 AD) picked up on Origen's earlier doctrine of the Theotokos (he lived in Alexandria which happened to be the focal point of Isis worship, a mother-goddess religion similar to Catholicism) and Catholic Mariology took off soon after the council.

Ultimately, creeds replaced the Scriptures as the primary authority for the church's teachings, a dynamic very well observed to this day in Augustinianism (the Westminster Confession which is heavily quoted by nearly every Reformed book author) and dozens of other denominations. [1] [2]

9 Constantine was relentless in his pursuit of ~heretics~, forbidding those outside of the Roman Catholic church to assemble and confiscating their property. The very things Christians had endured themselves were now being practiced in the name of Christianity. [1] [2]

Helena, mother of Constantine

1 She started the wave of relic mania (which continues to date). After she had journeyed to Jerusalem, she falsely claimed to have found the tomb of JESUS with three crosses in it, one of which instantly healed a terminally ill woman ... [1] [2]

2 She is -solely- responsible for the mislocalization of Mt. Sinai at the Sinai Peninsula (based on a vision she received ...) and for confusing generations of Bible scholars. Helena chose many sites in the Bible lands, most of which we know today were wrong. [1] [2]

1 Damasus was the first pope to refer to Rome as the apostolic see. Rome's primacy was officially pronounced by a synod called in Rome in 382 by Damasus, who was perhaps wary of the growing strength of Constantinople, which was already claiming to be the New Rome. [1]

2 Jerome attended the synod and stayed on to become Damasus's secretary, close adviser, and friend. Damasus then commissioned him to essentially bury the Greek Old Testament used up to that point predominantly for at least 5-6 centuries, by picking up the manipulated texts from Rabbi Akiva and re-introducing the ~Hebrew~ Old Testament to the world. To Jerome's defense we have to say that he possibly did not know of the manipulation and honestly held Akvia's texts for the original texts, but he has ultimately no excuse because even Augustine appealed urgently to him, to not use those texts and to continue in the very strong tradition of using the Greek Old Testament as basis for his Latin translation. [1] [2] [3]

3 Latin was introduced as the language of the mass during Damasus's pontificate. [1]

4 Damasus' Council of Rome partly legalized in 382 AD the Apocrypha / Deuterocanonicals as canonical and fully merged 6 extrabiblical books with the Bible. Shortly after, Damasus commissioned in 383 AD the Latin Vulgate as mentioned above, which was then instrumental in the fixation of that new canon in the West.

In 393 AD, Augustine was then the decisive link to legalize the Apocrypha as canonical for both 'Christians' and Roman Catholics, through his Council of Hippo.

But it took until the Reformation, until for the first time the full OT Apocrypha was merged with the Bible by the Reformers (see graphic below). [1]

5 Damasus was also decisive in discovering the tombs of martyrs and to encourage the veneration of the 'Christian' martyrs through many verse inscriptions he wrote. [1] [2]

1 He was secretary to Pope Damasus. The Catholic Church recognizes him as the patron saint of translators, librarians, and encyclopedists. [1] [2] [3]

 A letter to Damasus, written in 376/377 AD, illustrates Jerome's attitude towards him: 

"... I think it my duty to consult the chair of Peter, and to turn to a church whose faith has been praised by Paul. I appeal for spiritual food to the church whence I have received the garb of Christ. [Jerome was baptized in Rome!] The wide space of sea and land that lies between us cannot deter me from searching for "the pearl of great price." [...] The fruitful soil of Rome, when it receives the pure seed of the Lord, bears fruit a hundredfold [...] Yet, though your greatness terrifies me, your kindness attracts me. From the priest I demand the safe-keeping of the victim, from the shepherd the protection due to the sheep. Away with all that is overweening; let the state of Roman majesty withdraw. My words are spoken to the successor of the fisherman, to the disciple of the cross. As I follow no leader save Christ, so I communicate with none but your blessedness, that is with the chair of Peter. For this, I know, is the rock on which the church is built! This is the house where alone the paschal lamb can be rightly eaten. This is the ark of Noah, and he who is not found in it shall perish when the flood prevails. But since by reason of my sins I have betaken myself to this desert which lies between Syria and the uncivilized waste, I cannot, owing to the great distance between us, always ask of your sanctity the holy thing of the Lord. Consequently I here follow the Egyptian confessors who share your faith [...] He that gathers not with you scatters; he that is not of Christ is of Antichrist ..." [1]

2 He was the fourth doctor of the Roman Catholic Church. [1]

3 He taught the doctrine of Mary's perpetual virginity, which has no biblical basis at all (Mat 1:24-25 actually refutes it). He gives a long defense in his letter 'The Perpetual Virginity of Blessed Mary: Against Helvidius'. [1] [2]

4 Next to Augustine, he was one of the most notable defenders of the practice of invoking the saints. He chose outmost evil words against those who opposed this and related doctrines: "All at once Vigilantius (Wakeful- One), or, more correctly, Dormitantius (Sleepy-One), has arisen, animated by an unclean spirit, to fight against the Spirit of Christ, and to deny that religious reverence is to be paid to the tombs of the martyrs. [...] we are bound to meet the snares of the devil. The words may be justly applied to him: "Seed of evil-doers, prepare your children for the slaughter ..." [1] [2]

5 Allegations that he had an improper relationship. [1]

6 He was befriended with Augustine and they wrote several epistles to each other. [1] [2]

7 He was out-and-out lying when he broke all traditions of using the Greek OT, and to the surprise of everyone translated from the manipulated Modern Hebrew text. After even Augustine opposed him, he defended himself by claiming that the Apostles only quoted from the Modern Hebrew text, while indeed 90% of NT quotes are taken from the Greek OT as we know today. [1]

8 His Latin Vulgate became the official version of the Vatican. It replaced terms such as 'repent' with 'penance', 'mystery' for 'sacrament' and 'elder' (presbyter) with 'priest'. Samuel Berger called the Vulgate "the most vulgarized and bastardized text imaginable". Philip Schaff wrote "The Vulgate can be charged, indeed, with innumerable faults, inaccuracies, inconsistencies, and arbitrary dealing in particulars". Grady says "Damasus commissioned Jerome to revive the archaic Old Latin Bible in A.D. 382 ... the completed monstrosity became known as the 'Latin Vulgate' ... and was used of the devil to usher in the Dark Ages." [1] [2] [3]

9 He had such a bad temper, that he even carried a stone around with him with which to beat himself when his anger threatened to overcome him. He was also called the 'the great name-caller', regularly insulting his opponents (s.a.). [1]

10 Jerome advanced and encouraged the anti-biblical concept of aestheticism to everyone who was surrounded by him. [1] [2]

11 Exodus 34:29, 30 and 35 describe the face of Moses as glowing, after he came down from the mountain. But Jerome translated in the Latin Vulgate 'his face was horned'. This misled millions of people, including artists such as Michelangelo, who depicted in their medieval artworks Moses with such horns, giving him an inhuman and demonic aspect. [1]

12 The Roman Catholic Church systematically controls and probably removes articles written about Jerome. Nearly no criticism about his person can be found online, which is highly unusual.

1 Augustine of Hippo (was) a Manichaean, an outmost evil sect (2 gods, one good, one evil), known back then as the pinnacle of Gnosticism (see section 'cults'). Later he became a Platonist. Augustine 'converted' after 9-10 years to Christianity, but only under enormous pressure, precisely after the Roman emperor Theodosius had issued a decree of death for all Manichaean monks and shortly before he declared Christianity to be the only legitimate religion for the Roman Empire. Augustine seemed for some years to have proper theology and taught 'Free Will', but later inched back into Gnosticism where he borrowed his ideas of the 'elect' from Manichaeism (where he had never made it to be an 'elect', but a 'hearer' only). Quote from Retractions 2.1: "I have tried hard to maintain the free choice of the human will, but the grace of G-d prevailed" [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]

2 He inspired 'Christian' Calvinism, which should be called 'Augustinian Calvinism'. He taught in his last 18 years variants of the 5 points of TULIP and Double Predestination. Practically every person in the modern era (1500 AD+) who is a determinist, quotes Augustine. B. B. Warfield declared, "The system of doctrine taught by Calvin is just the Augustinianism common to the whole body of the Reformers." [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

3 The Westminster Confession of Faith is entirely Augustinian. [1] [2] [3] [4]

4 He was among the first (some say the father) who taught amillennialism (typical today for Calvinism), interpreting Bible prophecy allegorically. He also rejected the Genesis account being literal. Christians who took the creation story literally were his laughingstock and looked like 'idiots' among non-Christians because they denied science and reason. [1] [2] [3]

Apocrypha (Deuterocanonicals, Ecclesiastical Books)

5 [393 AD] He was a key figure in bringing the Ecclesiastical Books (commonly called Apocrypha but never hidden) into our Bibles. While others (e.g. Origen) had previously considered it rather profitable for reading and while the Catholic Church had included in 382 AD some apocryphal books, Augustine was the very first to approve the canonicity of the Apocrypha through his own Council of Hippo in 393 AD; shortly before the mega codices and later practically all Bibles indeed included those. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

(Roman) Catholic Church

6 Augustine received baptism from St. Ambrose, the 2nd doctor of the RCC. He then became a priest and bishop. [1]

7 Augustine was responsible for -most- of Catholicism's doctrines and practices. [1] [2]

8 Preeminent Doctor of the Catholic Church and the patron of the Augustinians. He believed in all seven Catholic sacraments (contradicting statements on purgatory, but definitely affirming it). B.B. Warfield: "Augustine determined for all time the doctrine of grace. Yet he believed that grace came through the Roman Catholic sacraments." He taught that Mary was born and lived her entire life without sin (only Christ was without sin!). He further taught that there is no forgiveness outside the RCC. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

9 Pope John Paul II, 1986: " ... the authoritative teaching of such a great doctor and pastor may flourish ever more happily in the Church" [1]

10 Prayers to the martyrs. [1] [2]

11 Although Augustine at first rejected violence, he later turned to the contrary position and even became the father of the doctrine of persecution in the Catholic Church. The historian Neander observed that Augustine's teaching "contains the germ of the whole system of spiritual tyranny, intolerance, and persecution, even to the court of the Inquisition." Augustine: "Many must first be recalled to their Lord by the stripes of temporal scourging, like evil slaves, and in some degree like good-for-nothing fugitives." [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Further Heretical Teachings

12 Augustine on infant baptism: "So that infants, unless they pass into the number of believers through the sacrament [baptism] which was divinely instituted for this purpose, will undoubtedly remain in this darkness." [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

13 He was one of the first to argue for financial tithing based on Old Covenant law. [1]

14 Heretical teaching that even marital sex involving lust is sinful. The only way to avoid evil caused by sexual intercourse is to take the 'better' way and abstain from marriage (he went as far as to recommend married clergy not to live with their wives!). Meanwhile, he was once involved in sexual sin and is famous for the evil prayer "Lord, give me chastity and continence, but not yet!" [1] [2]

15 He was a Ransom-Theorist (Jesus was paying the devil to release us). [1] [2]

16 Erroneous doctrine that Jesus had no brothers. [1]

17 He did not know Greek and started teaching before the Bible was translated into Latin. [1] [2] [3] [4]

18 Although not heretical and little known, Augustine was the forerunner (and indirectly the creator) of dispensationalism. This doctrine is seen as incompatible by today's Calvinists. [1]

[~311 AD] Wulfila (literally 'Little Wolf') was born in Romania (Dacia) among the Goths who lived in Ukraine, Bulgaria and Romania. His official seal even carried a handle with a wolf depiction [see 4]. A wolf symbolizes in the Bible rather an anti-Christ than a Christian. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

Wulfila believed himself to be Catholic and was made a 'Confessor of the Faith'. [1] [2]

[337-341 AD] After Constantine had sanctioned Christianity in 325 AD, Eusebius of Nicomedia (who pieced together an Apostolic Succession until the first Pope of Rome and is therefore venerated in the Roman Catholic Church; he also 'baptized' Constantine in 337 AD) showed his great influence by bringing Wulfila into the Arian priesthood. This was highly unusual because Wulfila had not even been a presbyter nor deacon up to that point [see 4], but only a lector.

Eusebius sent him to convert the heathen Goths and consecrated him therefore Arian bishop of the Visi-Goths in Romania (Eastern Dacia). Wulfila then preached for 40 years in Greek, Latin and Gothic. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]

[~337-361 AD] Constantius II, the Roman emperor and successor of Constantine, described Wulfila as the era's Moses and he was also compared to the prophet Elijah ... [1]

[~347 AD] When being persecuted, Wulfila led his people across the Danube to the South (Moesia = Serbia, Macedonia, and Bulgaria). [1]

[After 348 AD] He invented the Gothic alphabet (which was preceded by the Gothic script which was a way of writing the Latin alphabet), largely based on the Greek alphabet (20 out of 27 letters from Greek; 5 letters from Latin and 2 letters from Runic characters). The Gothic language was then spoken by the Eastern Germanic (Gothic) tribes in the Early Middle Ages (5-10th c. AD). [1] [2] [3] [4]

[~350-369 AD] Gothic Bible. He translated, possibly with a team of translators (assumption based on textual analysis), some fragments of the Old Testament and ~17 books of the New Testament from Greek into Gothic, excluding e.g. the book of Acts and Revelation (some say the whole Bible except the Book of Kings). The translation was created in Bulgaria (Nicopolis). It antedated Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405 AD) and was considered of greater authority and legitimacy. Jerome's (Secretary of Pope Damasus) 'Commentary on Isaiah' contained also a copy of Wulfilas respective translation, affirming once again that the Roman Catholic Church highly respected and praised Wulfila. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]

[360 AD] Wulfila attended the Council of Constantinople, which was organized by the Roman emperor Constantius II (= Roman Catholic Church). [1] [2]

[~376 AD] The Visi-Goths converted to Arian Christianity through their bishop Wulfila. [1] [2] [3]

[381/383 AD] Wulfila travelled to the Council of Constantinople (once again organized by the Roman Catholic Church through the Roman emperor Theodosius I) where he was ordered to attend a disputation, fell ill and died ... [1] [2]

[5c AD] The Goths conquered parts of the Western Roman Empire, including Italy, southern France, and Spain. 'Gothic Christianity' reigned in these areas for two centuries, before the re-establishment of 'Latin Christianity', and in Spain, until the Gothic assimilation to Catholicism in 589 AD, after the Third Council of Toledo. [1] [2] [3] [4]

[500-520 AD] Creation of the Silver Bible (Codex Argenteus), which includes part of the 4 Gospels from Wulfila's Gothic Bible. It was written in Northern Italy, possibly for Theodoric the Great (Ostro-Gothic King). [1] [2] [3] [4]

Most remarkably, the Gospel of Matthew (Mat 5:34) is the first document in recorded history where the name 'GOD' (related to the Gothic cognate 'gudis') appears.

The Gothic word 'guþs' ('God's') is the genitive of guþ ('God').  [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]

[526 - 1569 AD] The Silver Bible 'disappeared' for a thousand years, and was now found in Northwest-Germany. [1] [2]

[1597 AD] Bonaventura Vulcanius from South Holland affirmed that the original content of the Silver Bible, the Gothic Bible, had been translated by Wulfilas. [1]

Seminal figure of the Protestant Reformation in 1517. But the true Reformation began more than 300 years before Luther, with the Waldensians.

1 He was part of the Augustinian order. "Augustine was the ablest and purest of all the doctors..." John Piper (Calvinist) acknowledges that Augustine was the major influence upon both Calvin and Luther. Luther was an Augustinian by training, and he continued to practice many of the core tenets of that version of Catholicism after his excommunication and for the rest of his life. He did not want to leave the Catholic Church - he wanted to reform it! He even received the official last rite from an Augustinian when he was on his deathbed. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] 

2 He famously wanted Hebrews, James, Jude and the book of Revelation removed from the Christian canon and organized those in his Bible in a section analogous to the Apocrypha. His preface to Revelation: "I can nowhere detect that the Holy Spirit produced this book ... My spirit cannot fit itself into this book. There is one sufficient reason for me not to think highly of it - Christ is not taught or known in it."  [1] [2] 

> If CHRIST is not known in the book of Revelation, then Christians have no hope at all. Martin Luther was an anti-Christ!

3 Faith / Grace - ALONE doctrine. 

Pelagius (4c AD) was the first to frame the doctrine 'justification by faith alone: "Sinful man, depraved and dead in sin, contributes nothing by his own will or interests or best efforts or works towards his justification." 

Luther was then more than 1000 years later the key figure in bringing the (Faith / Grace ...-) ALONE doctrines into our vocabulary. He interpolated the word 'alone' in his Bible translation of Rom 3:28. When he was opposed for this, he insulted his enemies. 

The 2017 version of the Luther Bible has added footnotes on Rom 1:17, 2:13, 3:21, and Rom 3:28 that warn about the deliberate mistranslations Luther committed. [1] [2] [3]

4 Luther gave his blessing to have Anabaptists executed, simply based on their opposition of infant baptism and emphasis on adult baptism. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

John Calvin considered Anabaptists also as the greatest heretics. Luther's friend Melanchthon on the other hand praised Calvin for Servetus' death. "The Church owes and always will owe a debt of gratitude to you for having put the heretic (Servetus) to death." (Vance, 42) [1] [2]

5 Ruthless rejection of biblical inerrancy in his commentary on Chronicles: "When one often reads that great numbers of people were slain-for example, eighty thousand- I believe that hardly one thousand were actually killed." [1] [2]

6 Martin Luther believed that Christians were free to observe any day of the week as holy, contrary to the Bible clearly stating the Weekly Sabbath to be the day of rest. [1]

7 Luther expressed in his works anti-Judaistic views, calling for the expulsion of Jews and burning of synagogues. Based upon his teachings, the prevailing view among historians is that his rhetoric contributed significantly to the development of antisemitism in Germany and of the N**i Party. [1] [2]

8 Serious theological errors. He implied it to be an open question if divorce is allowable. He taught that divorced people should be allowed to remarry. [1]

9 He rejected the biblical concept of 'Free Will': "If any man doth ascribe aught of salvation, even the very least, to the free-will of man, he knoweth nothing of grace, and he hath not learnt Jesus Christ aright." Lutherans adhere to 'divine' monergism, the teaching that salvation is by THEOS' act alone, and therefore reject the idea that humans in their fallen state have a free will concerning spiritual matters. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

10 Luther was extraordinarily devoted to the 'Blessed Virgin Mary' and wrongly believed that Mary died as a virgin. But he (at least publically) disregarded the intercession and invocation of the saint. [1]

1 Calvin never stated in any of his extensive writings to be born again. He credited his salvation with his infant baptism in the Roman Catholic Church. [1] [2]

2 Quote of John Calvin: "Augustine is so wholly within me, that if I wished to write a confession of my faith, I could do so with all fullness and satisfaction to myself out of his writings." 

This is why one finds that every four pages written in the Institutes of the Christian Religion John Calvin quoted Augustine -he references Augustine 4,119 times in his works !!!-. Alvin L. Baker wrote, "There is hardly a doctrine of Calvin that does not bear the marks of Augustine's influence." "Calvin would deem himself not a Calvinist, but an Augustinian. [...] Christian Calvinist, should they be more likely deemed an Augustinian-Calvinist?" As a result, Calvinism in particular is sometimes referred to as Augustinianism. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] 

3 Calvin suggested that the book of Genesis "incorrectly but without impropriety describes the moon as being of the same size as Saturn", while "Matthew mistakes a comet for a star". [1]

4 Promotion of the Apocrypha. He was edified by it and cited it in support of already accepted doctrines. He appealed several times to Baruch as a prophet and to other apocryphal books as being sacred. He cited both Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) and Wisdom as 'sacred writers'. [1] [2]

5 Heretical doctrine that Christ died only for the elect and intercedes only for the elect. [1]

6 Calvin dogmatically affirmed the efficacy of infant baptism to effect forgiveness of sins and entrance into the Kingdom. In spite of his quarrel with Rome, he taught that being baptized by a Roman Catholic priest was efficacious for eternity. [1] [2]

7 Calvin is directly responsible for the first 'heretic' sentenced to death by Protestants, the burning of his theological opponent, Servetus, in 1553 AD. He had him arrested while visiting his church and single-handedly provided the points of the indictment. "Throughout the trial (of several weeks) he had put the screw upon the Council to pass a death sentence on Servetus and had gained his end". "It might be true that Calvin had contemplated a mitigation of the sentence (sword instead of slow burning) - but only if Servetus were to purchase this mitigation by a spiritual sacrifice, by a last-hour- recantation to Farel, the friend and messenger of Calvin (of the 'most abominable sin', of Modalism, the second charge was anti-infant baptism)."

Calvin justified this killing with Old Covenant Law, Lev 24:16: "The one who blasphemes the name of the Lord should be put to death". Instead of repenting, "he boasted of the deed before a silent congregation" when he entered the pulpit the next Sunday.

He also spelled out his theologically reinforced vengeance towards his opponents in a personal letter: "I am persuaded that it is not without the special will of G-d that, apart from any verdict of the judges, the criminals have endured protracted torment at the hands of the executioner." - Calvin's letter to Farel.

Calvin's letter to Marquis de Poet in 1561 AD: "Such monsters should be exterminated, as I have exterminated Michael Servetus the Spaniard."

In 1562: "And what crime was it of mine if our Council at my exhortation ... took vengeance upon his execrable blasphemies" [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [The Right to Heresy - How John Calvin Killed a Conscience: Castellio against Calvin, Chapter 5, Pages 70-84]

8 He became known as 'The Protestant Pope' and was a tyrant, with a reputation spanning continental Europe, though his treatment of humanity was brutal.

After Calvin's supporters gained the absolute majority on the city's council in 1555, there was a few months later an attempted uprising against Calvin's exclusion from the Lord's Supper of certain libertarian civic officials. Riot leaders who fled Geneva to Bern were sentenced to death in absentia. Four who failed to escape were beheaded and quartered, and their body parts were hung in strategic locations as a warning. Evoking the phrase 'henchmen of Satan' that he had years before used against Anabaptists, Calvin justified this barbarity: "Those who do not correct evil when they can do so and their office requires it are guilty of it." 

To speak disrespectfully of Calvin or the clergy was a crime. A first violation of these ordinances was punished with a reprimand, further violation with fines, persistent violation with imprisonment or banishment. Fornication was to be punished with exile or drowning; adultery, blasphemy, or idolatry, with death ... a child was beheaded for striking its parents. In the years 1558–59 there were 414 prosecutions for moral offenses; between 1542-64 there were 76 banishments and 58 executions. 

The book 'Calvin: A Biography' lists 36 executions wherein Calvin was directly or indirectly involved in. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

9 One of the sad features of Calvin's Institutes is the demeaning language he continually employs (much like Luther) to vilify all who disagree with him: "Hence it is, that in the present day so many dogs tear this doctrine [predestination] with envenomed teeth ... assail it with their bark ... Since some feeling of shame restrains them from daring to belch forth their blasphemies against heaven, that they may give the freer vent to their rage, they pretend to pick a quarrel with us ... this doctrine, which perverse men undeservedly assail because it is sometimes wickedly abused ... The profane make such a bluster with their foolish puerilities," and so forth, page after page. [1]

10 He used the power of the state to compel church attendance. [1]