... salvation. Luther and Zwingli did not see eye to eye as it related to the sacraments either. Zwingli greatly believed in freedom of the Holy Spirit and to give authority to Luther's theory on sacraments, would greatly bind the Holy Spirit. Finally, John Calvin is given credit as being the theologian that was able to pull several movements together in order to form a workable ... of the day. Calvin felt it impossible for the body of Christ to descend and be present on more than one alter at a time. In actuality it is through the Holy Spirit that we are spiritually taken to heaven. While ...

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... new Christian humanistic ideas came the basis for the Reformation. Both Lutherans and Calvinists kept only two of the seven holy Catholic sacraments: communion and baptism. They also shared similar beliefs about these sacraments. For example, both groups thought that the spirit of Jesus was contained in the bread and wine that were His body and blood for communion. They each relied ... on the Holy Bible as the sole authority for all religious matters and used it as a basis for their churches. But the ... a person who will be saved can never truly fall from the grace of God and those co...

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... , 529). The second "wall" Luther attacked was the credibility of the Priesthood. He argued that Priests thought so highly of themselves, and felt like they were ever-full of the Holy Spirit, and thus behaved in any which way without risking its lost. He also said that they spent their lives arguing that they alone were worthy of teaching scripture, when they ... ...

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... so before becoming good humans must accept faith. The Council of Trent supports the option of free will on Paul's account. God touches a person's heart through the light of the holy Spirit, neither does that person do absolutely nothing in receiving that movement of grace, for he can also reject it; nor is he able, by his own freewill and without God ... ...

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