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) was originally educated as a humanist lawyer at the University of Orleans but in 1533 he experienced a religious conversion.  Born in France he had to flee since he was considered a heretic for his protestant writings.  Calvin went to Geneva where a fellow French reformer William Farel asked him for help in educating people on the Bible.  Calvin and Farel were both expelled from Geneva for their beliefs.  Calvin went to Strasburg and ministered to a church of French refugees.  When the political climate changed in Geneva in 1541 Calvin was invited back where he established a religious government.  In the next 5 years 58 people were executed for impiety and 76 exiled for their beliefs.  Geneva became the center of the movement creating Presbyterianism in Scotland, Puritanism in England, Huguenots in France, and the reform church in the Netherlands. ) solution was God decides before you are born.  Even though Luther was an Augustine friar he did not emphasize predestination, Luther emphasized God’s grace.  The Calvinists wanted to know if you were in the elect so they thought by doing good deeds they were proving to themselves, not to God, that they were in the elect.    Calvinists were always noted as hard workers.  This was a way they could show themselves that they were in the elect.  The letter of James seems to take a little different approach to this and we will come back to this with Wesley and the Arminian ( ) was originally educated as a humanist lawyer at the University of Orleans but in 1533 he experienced a religious conversion.  Born in France he had to flee since he was considered a heretic for his protestant writings.  Calvin went to Geneva where a fellow French reformer William Farel asked him for help in educating people on the Bible.  Calvin and Farel were both expelled from Geneva for their beliefs.  Calvin went to Strasburg and ministered to a church of French refugees.  When the political climate changed in Geneva in 1541 Calvin was invited back where he established a religious government.  In the next 5 years 58 people were executed for impiety and 76 exiled for their beliefs.  Geneva became the center of the movement creating Presbyterianism in Scotland, Puritanism in England, Huguenots in France, and the reform church in the Netherlands. ) solution was God decides before you are born.  Even though Luther was an Augustine friar he did not emphasize predestination, Luther emphasized God’s grace.  The Calvinists wanted to know if you were in the elect so they thought by doing good deeds they were proving to themselves, not to God, that they were in the elect.    Calvinists were always noted as hard workers.  This was a way they could show themselves that they were in the elect.  The letter of James seems to take a little different approach to this and we will come back to this with Wesley and the Arminian (