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Calvin's Instuttues: May 6
Pasted text(129).txtDocumentNow thisCalvin keeps pressing the same central nerve—if Christ is sufficient, anything added to Him becomes dangerous—and here he turns directly to purgatory, calling it not a harmless speculation but a destructive invention that shifts satisfaction for sin away from the blood of Christ and onto something else entirely. He refuses to treat it as a minor issue, arguing that once you allow expiation to happen anywhere outside of Christ, you undermine the gospel at its core. From there he dismantles the Scripture passages often used to support it, showing that they…
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