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Calvinism and Arminianism
Calvinism and Arminianism · Intermediate

Perseverance of the Saints or Eternal Security?

Calvinists and non-Calvinistic Baptists agree that a true believer can never be lost, but we rest his safety on God's keeping and God's promise to everyone who believes, not on a decree that passed over others, and never on the believer's own continuing.

The lesson walks through the topic one card at a time. The full study is the complete written article, with its sources.

What you'll learn
1

What the Reformed doctrine of perseverance teaches, in the words of Dort and Westminster

2

How to read the strongest texts for perseverance, verse by verse

3

Where eternal security stands with the Reformed, and where the two part

4

Why conditional security robs a believer of assurance, and how to answer it with love

5

How to rest in God's keeping and still take sin and the warnings seriously

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