perseverance of the saints
English
Alternative forms
- perseverance of saints
Noun
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.
Translations
Calvinist doctrine
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