What a horrible thing to have no assurance of salvation! :sigh:
The early Christians were Calvinistic, you all tried to write it off as Stoicism and ran off with your heresies. This is despite the fact that half your belief hinges on St. Augustine, who was a Stoic and very Calvinistic in his theology.
Call yourself anything- but leave 'orthodox' out of it
The early Christians were Calvinistic when John Calvin didn't come on the scene until 1600 years after Christ! These poor duped souls who live and die by the words of man.
Grosnic,
I think it is your friend.
Calvin reinstated early belief, that is what Reformed doctrine is.
Calvin was a false prophet Greek philosopher who turned the eternal God of heaven into a unfeeling monster who experiments on humans like Josef Mengele. You may not like the term free-will but we do have some kind of will whereby some believe in Christ to eternal life and many more reject him in unbelief. Faith is not a choice but it is also not 'download' into the elect like a computer program.
That's why I don't take you all seriously