Servetus

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Often appears with: the nature and attributes of God · sin, guilt, and repentance · manichaean error · emanation of soul · creation from nothing · conversion and faith

Usually: argument (1) · crisis of belief (1) · censure (1) · skepticism (1)

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“It is a certain truth, quoted by Paul from Aratus, that “we are the offspring of God,” but in quality, not in substance; forasmuch as he has adorned us with Divine endowments.” Jean Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) · insight

Institutes of the Christian Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) primary

Jean Calvin · 1541 (initial publication of the Institutes; this record is for a later 1559/French-collated edition, but the work’s composition spans Calvin’s revisions after earlier versions)
Book I. On The Knowledge Of God The Creator. > Chapter XV. The State Of Man At His Creation, The Faculties Of The Soul, (6/9)

He refutes the Manichaean claim revived by Servetus that the soul is an emanation of God’s substance, arguing instead that souls are created from nothing and transformed by God’s Spirit, not God’s essence.

character, that he was constituted heir and possessor of all things, whereas it must properly be sought *in* him, not *without* him; it is an internal excellence of the soul. V. But, before I proceed any further, it is necessary to combat the Manichæan error, which Servetus has attempted to revive and propagate in the present age. Because God is said to have breathed into man the breath of life,(406) they supposed t…