They do call it the doctrine of Christ, and it drives me nuts when they do.
It drives me nuts when you do it with your Cambellite doctrine.
I practice my Christian faith "methodically"...according to the bible.
Oh please. Tell me you have a rational argument beyond that.
It's typically referred to as "Calvinism" in contradistinction to "Arminianism" when soteriology is being discussed. Both sides normally view the other as being Christian but disagree adamantly over the respective doctrinal distinctives.
Calvinism is the doctrine of Christ as historically expressed and systematized by Calvin (among many others).
The first time I came into contact with Calvinism, was as a senior in high school, many, many moons ago. I thought along the same lines as you. Also, who really cares if there's a name attached to a certain belief? Some classmates, piped up and said, That's Calvinism, like it was something very stiff and to be avoided. It was at that time, I determined in my own mind, that if folks are very adamant about anything, to the point of making anyone feel like they just fell off a dump truck, there's something wrong with them. The moral of the story, just find what makes sense, and go with it...
"The fact that it is referred by is own followers as Calvinism confirms its counterfeit."
By that logic Baptists, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Methodists etc. are all conterfeits. Perhaps you are onto something and it explains why only 144,000 will be in heaven.
"I have my own private opinion that there is no such thing as preaching Christ and Him crucified, unless we preach what nowadays is called Calvinism. It is a nickname to call it Calvinism; Calvinism is the gospel, and nothing else. I do not believe we can preach the gospel, if we do not preach justification by faith, without works; nor unless we preach the sovereignty of God in His dispensation of grace; nor unless we exalt the electing, unchangeable, eternal, immutable, conquering love of Jehovah; nor do I think we can preach the gospel, unless we base it upon the special and particular redemption of His elect and chosen people which Christ wrought out upon the cross; nor can I comprehend a gospel which lets saints fall away after they are called, and suffers the children of God to be burned in the fires of damnation after having once believed in Jesus. Such a gospel I abhor."-c.h.spurgeon
http://www.spurgeon.org/calvinis.htm
"I learned that Spurgeon was not really a Calvinist. (It seems particularly galling for Arminians to come to grips with this one.)"
Their proper name is "the Doctrines of Grace", Calvinism is a short cut and it honors the man that wrote a Systematic Theology of the Christian Faith