I am so tired of sectarianism that, if not for the sake of convenience, I would never call myself a Calvinist.
There's a big difference between joining the Calvinist bandwagon and humbly reading the Bible as the final authority and coming to realize that it happens to agree with Calvinism. If you put the Bible first, and not your sectarian interpretation, then you can continue in peace and fellowship with non-Calvinists.
My only intent in communicating the doctrinal foundations of Calvinism to non-Calvinists has been to avoid being mislabeled as a heretic, not to prod others into joining some sort of bandwagon.
So, you know, Scripture supports a number of different interpretations, which is why we have schisms and different denominations. Indeed, even Arius was able to provide a scriptural exegesis for his theology, which was, unlike Calvinism, actual heresy (on CF.com no one would call you a heretic for professing Calvinism; it is against the rules and the culture; if your beliefs fit in with the CF.com Statement of Faith, which is the Nicene Creed as revised at the Council of Constantinople in 381, members should positively not call you a heretic), and he did this without modifying the text, something the contemporary heretical cult, the Jehovah’s Witnesses, did do, but this was due to a certain incompetence on their part, since they started out as ostensibly a Bible study group, and in promoting Arianism, one would assume they got tired of fielding endless questions about John 1:1, and at the same time, they were unaware of, or disinterested, in how the Arians explained it.
It certainly hasn’t harmed them, as their cult continues to grow, unlike most cults, exploiting the poorest members of society (a Pew research study indicated that of the religions in America, the Jehovah’s Witnesses had the lowest per capita income; interestingly, the Unitarian Universalists, who are similiarly heretical in that they completely deny the divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ, and who unfortunately seized control of several of the prettiest Congregationalist churches in New England during the schism they initiated in the late 18th century, and also Harvard Divinity School, are the wealthiest on a per capita basis).
I have recently made several posts on CF.com explaining how, through different means of interpretation, Scripture can be used to support a range of doctrines, some of which are erroneous, which is why I agree with the great fourth century anti-Arian bishop Saint Hilarion of Poitiers, who famously declared that Scripture is in the Interpretation, not the reading, and the fifth century Vincent of Lerins, who taught that the apostolic, universal, orthodox faith of the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church we (including Calvinist members) confess a belief in in the Nicene Creed, is what has always been believed everywhere, by everyone.