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Jacobus Arminius (1560–1609) arrived at the same conclusion in his own readings of the early church fathers. In responding to Calvinist William Perkins arguments for the perseverance of the saints, he wrote: "In reference to the sentiments of the [early church] fathers, you doubtless know that almost all antiquity is of the opinion, that believers can fall away and perish."
The phenomenological-true believer view: The warnings are given to true believers who can genuinely commit the sin. [112] [111] The covenant community view: The warnings concern the rejection of a covenant community by God when the community as a whole turns away from God's will, rather than individual believers. [113] [111]
The believer needs to continually feed his soul on the preaching of the Word and to grow in faith throughout the whole course of life. Since it is easy for the believer to fall away for a time from the grace of God, there is constant need for "striving and vigilance, if we would persevere in the grace of God."
To fall from grace is an idiom referring to a loss of status, respect, or prestige. Fall from grace may also refer to: Fall of man , in Christianity, the transition of the very first man and woman from a state of innocent obedience to God to a state of guilty disobedience
After this, to willfully sin would be to fall from grace. [50] When the believer is entirely sanctified (second work of grace), his/her original sin is washed away. [50] Methodist theology firstly distinguishes between original sin and actual sin: [51] Original sin is the sin which corrupts our nature and gives us the tendency to sin.
Sometime between 1610, and the official proceeding of the Synod of Dort (1618), the Remonstrants became fully persuaded in their minds that the Scriptures taught that a true believer was capable of falling away from faith and perishing eternally as an unbeliever.
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Monergistic, [38] [39] through the means of grace, resistible. [40] Synergistic, resistible due to the common grace of free will. [41] [42] Perseverance and apostasy: Perseverance of the saints: the eternally elect in Christ will certainly persevere in faith. [43] Falling away is possible, [44] but God gives gospel assurance. [45] [46]