perseverance of the saints
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English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]perseverance of the saints (uncountable)
- (theology) A Christian 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.
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[edit]Calvinist doctrine
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