Hello George,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: george murphy [mailto:gmurphy@raex.com]
> Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 8:41 AM
> To: Robert Schneider
> Cc: asa@calvin.edu
> Subject: Re: Freedom of the will (was Re: Bear sacrifice)
> & the problem with Pelagians & semi-Pelagians is not
> their affirmation
> of "free will" contra 2) but their insistence on maintaining
> some amount of
> human contribution to salvation.
My read on Pelagianism & semi-Pelagianism is NOT that they insist on human
contribution, but on the denial of the necessity of grace.
I quote the Council of Orange:
CANON 6. If anyone says that God has mercy upon us when, apart from his
grace, we believe, will, desire, strive, labor, pray, watch, study, seek,
ask, or knock, but does not confess that it is by the infusion and
inspiration of the Holy Spirit within us that we have the faith, the will,
or the strength to do all these things as we ought; or if anyone makes the
assistance of grace depend on the humility or obedience of man and does not
agree that it is a gift of grace itself that we are obedient and humble, he
contradicts the Apostle who says, "What have you that you did not receive?"
(1 Cor. 4:7), and, "But by the grace of God I am what I am" (1 Cor. 15:10).
CANON 23. Concerning the will of God and of man. Men do their own will
and not the will of God when they do what displeases him; but when they
follow their own will and comply with the will of God, however willingly
they do so, yet it is his will by which what they will is both prepared and
instructed.
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