Salvation is not in a church but in Christ Alone! NO church is safe from apostacy. The Swiss Reformed Church is for the most part as apostate as you can get. The word "reformed" doesn't mean anything to most people here nowadays. I know this is true for other reformed churches as well...like in the Netherlands, Scotland etc.

Ephesians 6 is the Christians daily wardrobe. But as I understand it, the Bible is full of spiritual wars from beginning to the end. Though our weapons are spiritual and therefore more powerful and invincible than all the carnal weapons of men. All Christians are called to fight the fight of faith.

This is going to be my last comment on this issue. We are going in circles in this discussion with the same old arguments coming up again and again.

I just pity the poor Apostolic Christians of the first 1500 years of the Church who had a literal interpretation of the Bible and cosidered the Bible ALONE as their authority. These poor creatures did not have Calvin's institutes of religion nor any reformed confession to teach them what the Bible REALLY says.

And yet, I prefer to remain an Apostolic Christian instead of converting to the religion of Calvinism.

Walt

Here is a good website promoting my side of the story:

www.evangelicaloutreach.org

Look for the article:
"His ashes cry out against John Calvin"
with all sources listed in the footnotes.
Caution: This website is thoroughly biblical and could destroy your faith in Calvinism.

I do NOT owe my freedom to John Calvin. I am free despite John Calvin. The main swiss reformer Ulrich Zwingli from Zurich had a similar approach to people he did not agree with. He had a good number of Swiss Anabaptists drowned in the lake of Zurich for rejecting the reformed (romanist?) doctrine of infant baptism. By the way I do not even know what Arminianism is and I do not care for it. My beliefs come from the scriptures ALONE. SOLA SCRIPTURA means the Scriptures ONLY. Nobody needs the Westminster Confession or Calvin's Institutes of Religion to understand true Christianity and the beautiful simplicity of the Gospel.