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John Calvin against the Veneration of the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic Church

  You can find the above image here: https://x.com/katherineortho/status/1978886308945961155  My comments on it, and an extended quotation of John Calvin from the Acts 10 passage: Uhh, no actually, when this woman, Katherine (why do the EO women get a pass when they presume to instruct?), references Acts 10:25-26, she only takes a snippet of the actual passage and she goes against what Scripture explicitly says: "As Peter was coming in, Cornelius met him and fell down at his feet and worshiped him. But Peter lifted him up, saying, 'Stand up; I myself am also a man.'” Yet this is on her short list of proper prostration and veneration in the New Testament. Yet Peter rebukes Cornelius for doing this. By the way, pop Protestant debaters online might not know what they are talking about, but most of the debates online by pop apologists for whatever tradition are pretty weak. Go back to the venerable dead. Here is Calvin on this passage in Acts 10: "Falling down at hi...