James1979 said:
No one should called themselives calvinist, baptist, catholic and so on. It's a disgrace to our Creator. I mean you don't see believers in the bible quoting saying I"m a mosaicnism (moses), I'm of isaiah the prophet, jeremiah and so on. We should called our doctrine, the doctrine of God/Gospel of Christ because they are scriptural.
James, you are living a dream that will not exist until after Jesus' return. It's sounds great, but it's just not possible in a fallen world.
I may be wrong here, but I just don't think anyone here goes around outside of CF and says to some one off hand, oh I'm a CALVINIST btw. (cue pretentious voice here). I think we all claim simply to be christian.
I know that when I am discussing religion with people outside of here, the word calvinism doesn't ever come up, unless I'm among mature believers and we happen to be discussing soteriology or something. (which has actually only happened once, among family)
HOWEVER, in the context of Christian forums, sometimes it's much much easier to put up by your name your particular belief system within christianity so that others will have a general idea of how you think and respond to different things here at CF. If we were all to put just christian down and try to move here and there within CF, there would be lots and lots of confusion.
And honestly, the division that happens in here would happen whether we display the "name" of our particular denomination or belief system by our names, or not.
Please, try to understand we put the icon by our names, not to divide, but to clarify, which, IMHO, is a big difference.
In christ
windi