✚ Soteriology · Perseverance

Fall-From-Grace

A regenerate believer may finally fall away — the Wesleyan and later Arminian reading, rejected by XVII.1.

This is a contested or rejected alternative.

The Westminster baseline on Perseverance is Certain-For-The-Elect. Personas and schools listed below hold this alternative position instead — either because they argued for it at the Assembly (like the Erastians on polity) or because they represent a receiving tradition that departed from the Standards on this point.

Cruxes on this attribute

The Assembly navigated 1 crux that bear directly on Perseverance.

Other positions on Perseverance