You still are not basing your salvation on faith in the Risen Christ.
Yes, I am.
According to calvinist theology, salvation is conditional
Then by your own definition, I am not a Calvinist.
Salvation is conditioned on Christ ALONE.
a closer examination of how the doctrines of grace work themselves out in the lives of calvinistic church members reveals a works-based salvation scheme
I have heard that there are Calvinistic churches that teach salvation is initially by grace and then they turn around and falsely teach that one has to work to remain saved. I am thankful that God led me to preachers of the true gospel of Christ that is based totally on Christ ALONE from eternity all the way to the new heavens and earth wherein dwells righteousness.
Folks need to be careful about regarding those churches, who may agree on the "Ordo salutis" regarding how God regenerates and brings to faith and repentance from dead works His elect, as a monolithic group.
At Grace Baptist Church of Ruston there is no talk about works being necessary to remain saved(believers will do good works that God has already ordained for them to do (Ephesians 2:10), but they are neither salvific nor something to "keep" them saved.
The "P" is TULIP should be called "preservation of the saints". The elect will persevere, but only because God preserves(keeps) them.
Jude 1:24-25 Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, to the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
they could be unsaved and land in Hell
None of God's elect, whom He chose before the world began and gave to His Son to be their Surety, will ever become unsaved, nor end up in Hell.
They are temporary Christians
There is nothing "temporary" about my salvation in Christ Jesus.
God lets some calvinists go through life thinking they are Christians
According to this verse, such a situation applies to lots of folks(regardless of what they might be called), who do not love the truth:
2 Thessalonians 2:10-12 They received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: that they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
So for the calvinist the question is always. Am I truly saved? Am I one of the elect?
Then by your own definition, I am not a Calvinist, as that is not my situation.
Even your faith is not your own, it had to be given to you.
Absolutely faith(and repentance of dead works) had to be given to me. It's the only way anyone has true Biblical faith and true Biblical repentance of dead works:
1 Corinthians 4:7 What hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?
So what security do you really have?
I have this:
Romans 7:24-25 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
I have this:
Romans 8:31-39 31What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written,
For thy sake we are killed all the day long;
We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
I have this:
Jude 1:24-25 Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, to the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.