perseverance of the saints

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  • perseverance of saints

Noun

perseverance of the saints (uncountable)

  1. (Christianity, theology) 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.

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