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I am not going to be baited, provoked, manipulated, or tricked into revealing my denominational affiliation.

Nor, apparently, your denomination's statement of beliefs. Are they secret? Or perhaps invisible?

I can recall anyone on these threads that wouldn't refer to their catechism, statement of beliefs, confession, etc. Some regularly post large portions of it.

And you can't figure out how I can post the statement of faith of the church I worship at somehow doesn't reveal the denomination?

Are you serious???????

Here is my statement of faith.....

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=

Salvation is by grace alone, through faith alone in Christ alone. It is the gift of God.

Ephesians 2:8-9 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

Calvinism vs Arminianism. Arguing over differences or whether babies should be baptized, being obsessed with finding out what others believe in nit picky issues to pass judgment on them as to whether they are *real* Christians, coming from Catholics of all people

*Oh, you believe this therefore you are a Nestorian, or whatever other label they decide to slap on you = being tossed to and fro by every wind of doctrine....

The basics on which Calvinism and Arminianism are found are salvation by grace through faith in Christ, being a gift of God. Are there differences in some interpretations of Scripture on things outside of that fundamental truth? Sure. Are they critical to salvation? Show me somewhere in Scripture that it says they are.

Ephesians 4:11-16 And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.

Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.

"I can recall anyone on these threads that wouldn't refer to their catechism, statement of beliefs, confession, etc"

But then again some of us are not ashamed of our affiliations.