The "sword" belongs to the civil government; not the Church.
Then you agree with me that "tolerance" in the cases of exile and death for one's doctrine is a GOOD thing. That what the Arminians of the time requested in that case was completely appropriate.
America is not the paradigm to which everyone in world history must conform.
But of course. However, in cases when America holds policies which are more Godly (such as not killing everyone who disagrees with you about God), I think that other cultures morally should be the same way.
What I am saying is that one has to possess a true faith in the biblical Christ in order to be saved...
Non-Reformed theologies hold to a different Christ than Calvinism.
No two christians will agree AT EVERY POINT about what God is like, what He has done, and so on and so forth. There is never complete agreement.
Two people can worship the SAME God, and still disagree about various aspects of His characters, ways, and stuff like that.
For example, me and my sister can both have the same pastor, and we can get different impressions of his opinions and personality. That doesn't mean that we have a different pastor - for we know the same person - but that one or both of us makes mistakes.
Given that all humans make mistakes, it's quite reasonable to assume that true believers will make mistakes about God. That doesn't mean that they worship a different God.
