That link gives a fairly good abstract of a man made label - in some ways labels are helpful as they are a shorthand to understanding someone - but equally they can be very unhelpful:
- they can be simplistic without nuance
- they can limiting
- they can be hijacked by others who claim the label but don't follow the 'definition'
- they can become stigmatised due to a minority without that reflecting reality for the majority
Yes, evangelicals would say that it is simply an understanding of what it means to be a Christian - but you are over-simplifying - most evangelicals will use that term as a shorthand, but will say that they are a Christian first and foremost. Equally, the link you provide talks about tenets which are central to belief - that doesn't prohibit other Christians from having different weighting to their focus, so it is not excluding others from being Christians. In fact by definition, evangelicals with a central focus on scriptures will take the Bible as guide as to how to follow Christ, not put in place artificial labels made by mankind, and there we will find that the focus is on Christ, a daily personal relationship with God through Jesus etc - not on setting up division and labels and groupings.
so labels can be good or bad - but I think you are hinting at / implying much more, because on the surface what you say doesn't make sense, if evangelicals focus on God and the Bible etc. - how is that a man-made bubble or a belief system which is a precarious house of cards collapsing under scrutiny?
- no sign of it collapsing - Christianity is rising worldwide, and even in the UK where traditional CofE is in decline, the evangelical church's growth means that overall Christianity is increasing.
- it isn't a bubble - it is core Christianity as laid out in the Bible, how do you define that as a bubble?
- as for ignorance - not really - there is a higher % of normal church members in evangelical churches doing theological training than in any other church, and the central priority of scriptures tends to mean that generally those same churches will be providing strong scriptural, theologically sound sermons and teaching on Sundays and through the week - where many other churches now deliver little more than a homily.
I think that having started this thread and having made accusations about evangelical Christianity, perhaps it would be helpful if you actually substantiated some of what you say - it is easy to throw out snippets and be negative and sound absolute, but with no substance behind what you say, perhaps you could provide some evidence to back up why you believe evangelical Christianity to be so flawed / so much a bubble / so ignorant...
there is no disagreement that some individuals can be flawed - so let us put that to one side for now as they do not define the underlying approach to how we read and understand the Bible and follow Jesus - you seem to have strong issues with anyone calling themselves an evangelical, with no apparent basis for those comments...