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Compare And Contrast American And Calvin On Predestination

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In the Pima tribe’s eyes “The Doctor of the Earth” created everything from bushes, ants, and mountains to even people. Pima’s believe that “The Doctor of the Earth” created people to assist him in producing offspring, and other natural objects such as trees. Calvin on Predestination, on the other hand, believed that a selected few were chosen by God to be saved by his grace while the rest of the people were sentenced to eternal death. Calvin’s view on Predestination states that a person’s destiny is already decided by God; whereas, the Pima creation story does not specify the destiny of a person, only his purpose. The Europeans and the Native Americans believed very different creation stories, causing the mentality of both the Europeans and
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