The Nazarene Articles of Faith are Arminian without qualification: prevenient grace is given to everyone so that no one is disabled from responding, the human will is genuinely free, election is conditional, and a believer who has been sanctified can still apostatise. This puts the denomination directly opposite the Reformed tradition on the questions the Reformation fought over, and it produces a characteristic pastoral temperature — assurance is real but never automatic, and the altar is always open again. The sixteen Articles also take a moderate position on Scripture, affirming that the Bible inerrantly reveals all things necessary to salvation, a formulation that deliberately does not extend inerrancy to matters of science and history. That wording has itself been the subject of repeated dispute with the denomination's more fundamentalist wing, including public fights over faculty at Nazarene universities in the 2000s and 2010s.