Is Calvinism Christian?

Well, Calvinism can get tricky and it gives me a headache thinking about it. From what I have read in the Bible, God allows his people to change HIS mind - how profound is that! You could say that everything God does He already knew He would do and everything that humans do, He already knew we would do. He is God and He is all-knowing. That does not mean that humans don't have free will, it just means that God knew what we were going to do, not that He made us do it. As for predestination... I think God knows from the beginning who will be saved in the end. However, I don't think you can tell just by that persons actions if they are going to be saved in the end or not. People change.

I grew up Baptist and am now Baptist. But my ex-husband was a presbyterian pastor and that's as calvinistic as you can get! Yes, Calvinists are Christian. They believe that you must make a profession of faith in Christ to be saved. However, I have found that most Christian denominations agree on that basic fact but then they differ on lots of other things such as baptism, charismatic gifts, how communion should be taken, etc. The thing is, my ex was also an army chaplain and we found that we could fellowship with the other christian chaplains, no matter what denomination. We all had our little differences but agreed that faith in Christ was the most important thing. Even the Catholic priests were in our fellowship although they hjad their own services on Sunday while we had a general protestant service. We all agreed on the most basic things and, to me, that's what is most important. If you believe in making a commitment to Christ and living for Him (whether you call it being saved or not) then you are a Christian. All those other things are minor. If you can't live with them, then go to another church where ytou feel most comfortable.

If it doesn't follow the teaching of Jesus in the first 5 books of the New Testament, to the letter, then it is false. You can find a lot of things like this in man's churches. They are strictly man's handy work, not God's. The Bible tells us to turn away from them. Art

Although I no longer attend a church with Calvinist leanings, I grew up Christian Reformed. Yes! It is Christian! They believe (and recite weekly) the mainline doctrines of the Apostle's creed. There are a lot of differences within mainline Christianity about "election" and/or "eternal security". There are a lot of differences concerning eschatology (the study of the end-times). Does this make a person an unbeliever?

Calvin and his teachings are the basis of Calvinism. Not Jesus. Unlike the apostolic churches in which the teachings are developed over centuries by many people, some of whom were the disciples of the apostols , teachings of the protestent churches are based on the sudden outburst of ideas which they propogated mainly because they hate the catholic church. If their intention was to root out evil from the catholic church out of love for our god they should have prayed for it rather than cut the church into bits and pieces. The kings of those times didn't like the influence that the church had over the people. So they started supporting these churches that were started by these individuals.