plies that the "salvation" Catholicism seems to offer is a sham: "Works Righteousness Is Wrongly Inferred from Reward" (Book III, l.18). Calvin seems to insist that our eventual "reward", whether heaven or hell, is predetermined by God, and he therefore implies Catholic bishops and priests are evil in assuming that payment (sort of "rewards" to the Church) can change this pre-determined end result. Calvin also indicates that the Cross and Jesus' martyrdom are a form of self-denial that the pompous "Papists" have seemed to have forgotten. He is refuting the idea that the notion of "Christ Died For Our Sins" can imply with the right sort of reward, Catholic sinners need not die in the same way. Prayer, not posture, seems to be Calvin's ways of denying the Catholic Church's right to be the "only" proper Church to worship God, His Son, and the Holy Spirit. In his own way, then, Calvin is truly narrow-minded and unforgiving.
It is difficult to come to terms with much of what Calvin discusses as if it were the only truly moral way to accept the sinful ways of a corrupt Mankind. While most co-religionists would agree that "Original Sin" emanated from expulsion of Man fro the so-call
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