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Definitions of backsliding in various dictionaries:
noun - a failure to maintain a higher state
verb - drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards
verb - to revert to sin
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| Relapsing |
| Nick bids lag to reform recidivism |
| Last Seen in these Crosswords & Puzzles |
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| Jul 15 2010 Universal |
| Feb 21 2007 The Times - Cryptic |
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| relapse into bad ways or error. |
| a failure to maintain a higher state |
| Relapse into bad ways or error. |
| Present participle of backslide. |
| sliding back |
| An occasion on which one backslides, especially in a moral sense |
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| Backsliding, also known as falling away or committing apostasy, is a term used within Christianity to describe a process by which an individual who has converted to Christianity reverts to pre-conversion habits and/or lapses or falls into sin, when a person turns from God to pursue their own desire. In Christianity, within denominations which teach Arminianism, such as the Methodist Church and Pentecostal Holiness Church, as well as in the Roman Catholic Church, backsliding is a state in which any free willed believer is capable of adopting. This belief is rejected by Calvinists endorsing the perseverance of the saints doctrine. In these denominations, it is taught that the backslidden individual is in danger of eventually going to Hell if he does not repent (see Conditional security). Historically, backsliding was considered a trait of the Biblical Israel which would turn from the Abrahamic God to follow idols. In the New Testament church (see Acts of the Apostles and Christianity in |