TULIP

TULIP – An acrostic for the five major points of Calvinism: total depravity (or inability) of man; unconditional election (also designated as ‘unmerited favour’) through grace alone, bestowed solely at God’s pleasure; limited atonement based upon Christ’s substitutionary death; irresistible grace bestowed upon the elect, in which faith is initiated by a divine act; and the perseverance of the saints, in which an individual’s election is fixed and eternal.