No, sir. I do not minimize or sweep doctrine under the rug. That is what your ism does. That is what all ism's do and that is the problem. As soon as you adopt an ism, you close your mind to critical thinking in favor of blindly following human leaders who are fallible. You use your ism as the lens through which you interpret scripture, and that is not the correct lens. If you're going to use any at all it should be context, as in the original context. That is pretty hard to get to, so most take the lazy way out and adopt an ism.

You are letting a very flawed man who sought to control others determine the context of your interpretation. You pick and chose hermeneutics to make your already in place belief system work.

Unfortunately its a bigoted and exclusionary system.

I say the bible's objection because I can show you where the bible clearly teaches Jesus died for all, in multiple places, and you have to then play some fancy game using outdated lexicons and various other reference materials written mostly by "Reformed" theologians in order to argue against what is clear to anyone with a first grade reading level. Who is the author of confusion?

You could be spending your time and energy preaching the gospel, but instead your preaching Calvinism. You tell people to repent, but most of you probably can't. You insist God chose you but He doesn't want the rest of us.

It is your ism that more closely resembles JW, SDA, and Mormonism in that you need a special book to tell you what the bible means.

I am willing to be convinced based on evidence, but I'm pretty sure you aren't going to come up with anything I haven't seen before. I'm a reformed Reformed.