Conviction is Free: The Story of Miguel Servet, or Michael Servetus as he is know to English speakers, is a very sad and disturbing story from Christian history. Carlos Xaviar of Restoration Fellowship shares about Miguel Servet's life and his tragic death and looks at how it has affected modern day Christianity. “To kill a man is not to protect a doctrine, but it is to kill a man. To protect a doctrine is not the magistrate's affair (what has the sword to do with doctrine?) but the teacher's. To seek truth and to utter what one believes to be true can never be a crime. No one must be forced to accept a conviction. Conviction is free.” Sebastian Castellio, contra Calvin “To prolong his agony, new wood was used that took longer to burn. [His] last words were, ‘Jesus, Son of the Eternal God, have mercy on me.’ [Calvin ordered] to hunt for and destroy any remaining copies…but in fact, in what is an amazing story in itself, 3 copies survived [including Calvin’s annotated personal copy in his library].” Beacons of the Light, Braybrooke, p 372. Legacy: 1st Edict of Religious Toleration by Queen Isabella Jaggielon, of Transylvania, 1559: "Each person (should) maintain whatever religious faith he wishes, with old or new rituals, while we at the same time leave it to their judgment to do as they please in the matter of faith, just so long as they bring no harm to bear on anyone at all." Carlos' website: http://christenemylove.com Recommended sites: http://www.socinian.org/about.html http://www.servetus.org/index.php http://www.miguelservet.org/servetus/web.php Recommender reading: - Did Calvin Murder Servetus? By Stanford Rives FREE on Google Books. - Out of the Flames: The Remarkable Story of a Fearless Scholar, a Fatal Heresy, and One of the Rarest Books in the World by Lawrence Goldstone, Nancy Bazelon Goldstone · 2002 Edward Wightman: https://inthenameofwhowhat.blogspot.com/2009/09/burning-of-edward-wightman-puritanism.html ------ https://kogmissions.com If you would like to help support and partner in this video work, you can donate here: paypal.me/TracyZhyk or here: https://kogmissions.com/kog-missionary-partnership. Thank you in advance! # MichaelServetus #MiguelServet #Calvin #Calvinism #ConvictionIsFree #RestorationFellowship

• published: 23 Apr 2021
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