# The Fifth Main Point of Doctrine
## The Perseverance of the Saints
## Rejection of the Errors

8. Who teach that it is not absurd that a person, after losing his former regeneration, should once again, indeed quite often, be reborn.

For by this teaching they deny the imperishable nature of God’s seed by which we are born again, contrary to the testimony of the apostle Peter: “Born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable” ([1 Pet. 1:23](/get-passage/1+Peter+1:23)).
