Attainable-But-Not-Essence-Of-Faith WCF baseline
An infallible assurance is attainable in this life but does not belong to the essence of faith; a true believer may wait long and conflict with many difficulties before partaking of it (WCF XVIII.3).
The Confession affirms this position as its confessional norm. Personas and schools that hold the Westminster baseline on this attribute will show this value; those who depart from it will show one of the alternatives below.
Who holds this position
Personas (181)
Cruxes on this attribute
The Assembly navigated 1 crux that bear directly on Assurance.
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Cite this position
Study Reformed, “Attainable-But-Not-Essence-Of-Faith” (Position), Westminster Standards Atlas, version 79a5f9880ac1, https://studyreformed.com/atlas/cite/position/soteriology/assurance/attainable_not_essence/.
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