2 Timothy

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NASB	2 Timothy 2:15 Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth.
AMPLIFIED 2015 2015	2 Timothy 2:15 Study and do your best to present yourself to God approved, a workman [tested by trial] who has no reason to be ashamed, accurately handling and skillfully teaching the word of truth.

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Subject: Calvin a workman approved??????

Bible Note: John Calvin came from a small town sixty miles northeast of Paris. His father was anxious for his son to have the advantages of a good education. Calvin entered the University of Paris at fourteen and mastered not only a brilliant writing style but a skill in logical argument. In later years men might not like what Calvin said but they could not misunderstand what he meant. He left the university in 1528 with his Master of Arts degree.
After Paris, at his fatherâ€™s insistence, John turned to the study of law in the universities of Orleans and Bourges, but his fatherâ€™s death in 1531 left Calvin free to pursue his own interests. Thus he returned to Paris as a student of the classics, intent upon a scholarâ€™s career.
His studies brought Calvin into touch with reforming ideas circulating in Paris, and shortly thereafter one of those â€œeventsâ€ in Calvinâ€™s life turned him in a new direction. He called it an â€œunexpected conversion.â€ We canâ€™t be certain about the date, but it was clearly more than a kind of spiritual enlightenment or the recognition of the supreme authority of the Scriptures. Calvin surrendered his will to God. He gave up his career as a classical scholar and identified with the Protestant cause in France.
In the autumn of 1533 Calvin was so closely linked with his friend Nicholas Cop that when Cop gave a strongly Protestant address as rector of the university, some suspected Calvin wrote the speech. The vigorous address threw the institution into an uproar, and Calvin was forced to flee from Paris. The young reformer found refuge in Basel, where in March, 1536, he published the first edition of his highly influential Institutes of the Christian Religion.

Bruce L. Shelley, Church History in Plain Language, Updated 2nd ed. (Dallas, TX: Word Pub., 1995), 258.

So we see somewhere between 1531 and 1535 Calvin "studied" scripture so diligently that he felt qualified to write what some call great theology Institutes of Christian Religion.
Excuse me if I'm not impressed with his ideas, opinions and conjecture.

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