There are so many 'isms' around that a person just doesn't know what to believe anymore. There are cults like Mormonism, Roman Catholicism, Russelism (i.e. Jehovah's Witnesses), Armstrongism to name a few. Does Calvinism fit into a group such as these?

No, but...
...its teachings are dangerous not only to the Body of Christ but to those still lost in the world system listening to them.

         Let's discuss some of the Calvinist's favorite scriptures to prove their beliefs in reference to predestination and election.
         Starting off in Romans 9, Paul says,
"I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,"-
         He says here that his conscience agrees or bears witness with what he is about to say. He is really sad for his own people that many of them have rejected Christ. Then in verses 3&4 he goes on to say,
"For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;"
(cf. Romans 10:1-4).

        COMMENT: From this section, please remember that Paul wishes that he was cursed, cut off from Christ for his brothers, the Israelites.

        Let's go on, we'll come back to this.
"Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:
Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.
That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed."
(Romans 9:5-8)

        COMMENT: Now we need to determine who are the children of the promise.
         First we need to go to the word to find out who God wants saved. By reading 1 Tim. 2:1-6, we see that God wants us to pray for all men because he wants all to be saved and come into the knowledge of the truth and the only way is through Jesus.

"I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;
For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;
Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time."
(I Tim. 2:1-6)

        COMMENT: Keep in mind that the Lord gave himself as a ransom for all and that he wants all saved.

        Then we go to II Peter 3:9, quoting:
"The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance."

        COMMENT: Here we see that he doesn't want anyone to perish but for all to come to repentance.

        Now let's tie all this together with II Tim. 1:9,10, quoting:
"Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:"

        COMMENT: So here we see that God saved us and called us to an holy calling not based on our works but according to what he has done for us in Christ Jesus. And that sacrifice was and is for everyone.
         When Jesus uttered some of his last words from the cross, "It is finished". He meant what he said. It is finished, we are not going to add to it or take from it. We're called to believe and receive him and let him work his will out in our lives as we submit to him.
(Cf. Phil. 2:13)

        Going to Romans 9:9-13, we read:
"For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.
And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac;
(For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)
It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.
As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated."

        COMMENT: From this section, I would like to bring to your attention that election has to do with service not salvation- 'The older will serve the younger'. As was pointed out earlier in this pamphlet, God wants all saved and not just a select few. Also commenting on v.13, the last part of this section, even if we wanted to forget God's foreknowledge, this particular statement that Paul was quoting from was written hundreds of years after they died (Ck. Mal. 1:2,3).

"What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy.
For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might show my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth." (Rom. 9:14-18)

        COMMENT: I would like to stop here and make a few observations regarding God hardening Pharaoh's heart. It has already been laid out that the Lord wants all saved. God was very patient with the Pharoah but he rejected God's mercy. Now it was time for him to suffer the consequences. (Ck. Rom. 9:22 )

"Thou wilt say then unto me, (1)Why doth he yet find fault? (2)For who hath resisted his will?
(3)Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? (4)Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
(5)Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?"
(Rom. 9:19-21)

        COMMENT: Five questions here and I numbered them, let's take them in order. (1)Because of sin in our lives (2)Many do but are never left unaffected or unharmed (3)I wonder that too (4)We as the ones that He formed shouldn't but we do at times (5)Yes, read about King David and also John the Baptist.

"What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?"
(Rom. 9:22-24)

        COMMENT: Verse 22 was brought up when we were speaking of the Pharaoh in verses 14-18. God endured with much patience the Pharaoh whom he wanted to repent and turn to him but the Pharaoh just wouldn't. In essence this section is speaking of God showing his wrath upon those who reject him and his blessings upon those who accept him.

"As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.
And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.
Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:
For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.
And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha.
What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.
But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;
As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed."
(Rom. 9:25-33)

         (COMMENT) God made his name known to the world through the nation of Israel. As time went on, they kept turning their backs on him or trying to please him through the works of the law, which is impossible (Ck. Rom. 3:20; 4:1-9) and not through faith (Heb. 11:6). He turned to another people who were not his people and they became children of God through faith in Christ Jesus (John 1:11,12; Gal. 3:26; 2 Cor. 5:21). Jesus the living Word made flesh is drawing all that will come to him in faith through and by the Spirit and his written word (the bible) or in agreement with it. God said that his word will not come back void (Isa. 55:11). So don't stumble over him as many have by trying to please God by your works just accept him because of his finished work on the cross. Let Jesus make you a new creature and work in and through you (I Cor. 5:17; Phil. 2:13).

         In summing this up, we see in verse 3 that Paul wishes himself accursed, shut off from Christ for his brothers, the Israelites sake. If God just convicts, draws, saves certain ones then Paul is in disagreement with God because Paul wants them all saved. Check these scriptures, keeping in mind that God calls men to himself through the Living Word, Jesus Christ and/or through his written word by the Spirit (Acts 2:39; Rom. 4:20-25). Commenting on Romans 9:7, we need to determine who were the children of the promise. Using I Tim. 2:1-6, God wants us to pray for everyone since he wants all saved and to come into the knowledge of the truth. He was a ransom for all men. In II Peter 1:9,10, the grace and love of God was shown to us in the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross and that sacrifice is for everybody.
         Election has to do with service not salvation in Romans 9:11-13. "God hated Esau and loved Jacob" was written hundreds of years after they died and that's not even mentioning God's foreknowledge.
        Now we come to the Pharaoh, tying verses 14-18 with verse 22 and cross-referencing with Exodus 7,8,9; God bore with great patience the Pharaoh and his deeds but the Pharaoh kept hardening his own heart and at a certain point and time, God hardened his heart even harder since now he was a vessel fit for destruction, (he went past the point of no-return.) God just doesn't put people here to die and go to hell forever. He loves them and wants them to come to saving knowledge of himself, but he never forces anyone to be saved. He convicts and draws but never forces.