You bring up a perfect point. If Calvinism is true, then the Bible, worship and all debate becomes meaningless. If a person is either among the elect or among the damned and NOTHING can change it, then talking about it is a waste of time. Why do Calvinists spend a penny on missionary work if they actually believe in election? Calvinism, taken to its logical conclusion, really means that a person can live their life however they wish because the outcome has been predetermined.
The general argument is that if they don't spend that penny then maybe they are not really numbered among the elect. It seems to me to be a back-door approach to the idea that you are saved by works.
Why do Calvinists spend a penny on missionary work if they actually believe in election?Means.
"And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned." -- Mark 16:15-16 "The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them." -- Proverbs 20:12
No, not at all. This again is hyper-Calvinism, which is anti-Calvinism. Calvinists proclaim that Paul openly and clearly addresses the above way of thinking and SHREDS IT TO RIBBONS. Paul says over and over "BY NO MEANS!" :) Hyper-Calvinism is anti-Biblical and therefore anti-Calvinist. It would be like saying that conservatism leads to hyper-conservatism which is Nazism. No, American conservatism utterly and completely rejects Nazism. The latter is NOT a logical extension of the former.