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Gift of perseverance

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Augustine defined perseverance as gift by which one perseveres up to the end of their lives, if a person dies as a believer they had been given the gift, but if one dies as an unbeliever, even if he used to once believe, he did not have this gift given. Augustine believed that the gift can be
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that persevering in the faith is a gift given by God, but a person can never know if they have the gift. According to Augustine, without having the gift of perseverance a person is damned, even if he seems to have been elected by grace. Augustine himself also believed that
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held a similar view about perseverance being a work of God, and thus foreshadowing the Augustinian view. Some Calvinists argue that the Augustinian view foreshadows the Calvinist doctrine of
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received through prayer, but when one person has the gift, they can't lose it.
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Augustinianism

Saint Augustine
Platonic realism
Filioque
Original sin
Free will
Augustinian predestination
Gift of perseverance
Just war theory
Absence of good
Concupiscence
Sacramental character
Augustinian theodicy
Augustinian values
Divine command theory
Amillennialism
Deity
Church invisible
Divine illumination
Theocentricism
Limbo
Solvitur ambulando
Heroic virtue
Incurvatus in se
Biblical criticism
Augustinian hypothesis
Allegorical interpretations of Genesis
Homer

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