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Conditional-On-Continued-Faith

Perseverance is conditional on the believer's continued faith and obedience; final apostasy of the truly regenerate is possible — the Arminian position 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.

Who holds this position

Schools (1)

Cumberland Presbyterians (1810)

Cruxes on this attribute

The Assembly navigated 1 crux that bear directly on Perseverance.

The Perseverance of the Saints 1646 Can the truly regenerate finally fall from grace?

Other positions on Perseverance

Certain-For-The-Elect WCF Those whom God hath accepted in his Beloved, effectually called and sanctified by his Spirit, can neither totally nor finally fall away from the state of grace (WCF XVII.1). Fall-From-Grace A regenerate believer may finally fall away — the Wesleyan and later Arminian reading, rejected by XVII.1.

Cite this position

Study Reformed, “Conditional-On-Continued-Faith” (Position), Westminster Standards Atlas, version 79a5f9880ac1, https://studyreformed.com/atlas/cite/position/soteriology/perseverance/conditional/.

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