Reform theology has a very, very dark side which hypocalvinst uusally do not want to discuss. But it is just as much a part of Calvinist dogma as TULIP or Predestination or a misguided concept of Sovereignty. The eisogesis of scripture with plain meaning is breathtaking in this Augustinian Reform Theology.
lol. I don't see a "dark side" and all the Calvinists I know love to discuss all of their faith in the Triune God.
I might add that "evangelizing people to Calvinism" is a contradictory statement. In Calvanism everything is set in stone before the world was spoken into existence. So when God, according to Calvinism and the use of logic, said to preach the gospel to every creature, he was instructing his preachers to lie to those reprobated to damnation for his good pleasure. They, under Calvinist dogma, could never be "evangelized".
None of us knows the names of the elect and Christians are commanded by God to preach the Gospel to all men.
Do you think God isn't aware of your eventual destiny? Do you think He had nothing to do with your "choice" to believe? Does it really make sense that the God of all creation doesn't get what He wants when He wants it? Is the Holy Spirit really so ineffectual?
"Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto thee" -- Psalms 65:4
Here's Cornelius Van Til's explanation of why he possesses faith in the risen Christ to a man who somehow doesn't believe God ordains all things, and that some, all, a little, even a second of life "just happens."
I hope you get over your aversion toward Calvinism. I once thought like you. But as the knowledge of God's perfect sovereignty has seeped into my me-addled brain, life has become an even greater gift. It's all of unmerited grace, every jot and tittle of it.
"Whatever the cause, the Calvinists were the only fighting Protestants. It was they whose faith gave them courage to stand up for the Reformation. In England, Scotland, France, Holland, they,... did the work, and but for them the Reformation would have been crushed... If it had not been for Calvinists,... and whatever you like to call them, the Pope and Philip would have won, and we should either be Papists or Socialists." ~ Sir John Skelton