perseverance of the saints

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A doctrine, one of the Five Points of Calvinism, stating that true believers in Jesus Christ's substitutionary atonement on the cross (the "saints") cannot relapse and are predestined to salvation.

Word forms

perseverance of the saints perseverance of saints
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