Jesus did not separate the fishes until they are brought ashore

 John Calvin said even Jesus Christ did not split the church!

Institutes of the Christian Religion IV, i, 13

But that they may at the same time understand that it contains a mixture of good and bad, let them hear from the lips of our Saviour that parable in which he compares the Church to a net in which all kinds of fishes are taken, but not separated until they are brought ashore. ^[1]

 

Meaning:

They claim that the church of Christ is holy [Eph. 5:26]. ^c(b)But in order that they may know that the church is at the same time mingled of good men and bad, let them hear the parable from Christ’s lips that compares the church to a net ^bin which all kinds of fish are gathered and are not sorted until laid out on the shore [Matt. 13:47–58]. Let them hear that it is like a field sown with good seed which is through the enemy’s deceit scattered with tares and is not purged of them until the harvest is brought into the threshing floor [Matt. 13:24–30]. ^cLet them hear finally that it is like a threshing floor on which grain is so collected that it lies hidden under the chaff until, winnowed by fan and sieve, it is at last stored in the granary [Matt. 3:12]. ^bBut if the Lord declares that the church is to labor under this evil—to be weighed down with the mixture of the wicked—until the Day of Judgment, they are vainly seeking a church besmirched with no blemish.^[2]

 

My comment:

I pray that the fundamentalists would repent from the sin of sifting the church, and separate us from one and another, in this I stand together with John Calvin, rebuking these false theologians and false teachers in Far Eastern Bible College and some BPC ministers.

Onto that that day God will separate the wicked and believers, unto that the day I waited for, and I am now crying in the wilderness, who will listen to me?

 

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^[1] John Calvin and Henry Beveridge, Institutes of the Christian Religion, vol. 3 (Edinburgh: The Calvin Translation Society, 1845), 26.

^c(b) edition of 1539 as altered in 1543

^b edition of 1539

^c edition of 1543

^b edition of 1539

^[2] John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion & 2, ed. John T. McNeill, trans. Ford Lewis Battles, vol. 1, The Library of Christian Classics (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2011), 1027–1028.