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Category: Pelagianism

  • All Have Sinned – Except Mary? (Responding to Steve Ray)

    Steve Ray (Roman Catholic) writes: From the early centuries Mary was considered the All Holy One and considered as without sin. Rom 3:23 is a general statement but does not mention exceptions to the rule. For example, Jesus was a man without sin, therefore an exception. Jesus did not come short of the glory of…

  • Pelagianism Examined by William Cunningham

    A friend of mine (who will remain anonymous), recently brought to my attention the following excerpt from William Cunningham, Historical Theology, vol. 1, Sec. III.—Conversion—Sovereign and Efficacious Grace (all that follows is Cunningham, not me) The controversy between Augustine and his opponents turned, as we have said, to a large extent, upon the nature and…

  • Steve Hays on "Pelagian Calvinism"

    Steve Hays has provided an in-depth response to Perry Robinson’s mischaracterization of Calvinism as “Pelagian.” (link) -TurretinFan To God be the Glory!

  • Response to Jay Dyer on Calvinism (Part 8 of 13)

    This is part 8 of the thirteen part series in response to Jay Dyer. The previous part may be found here (link). Jay Dyer says: 7) “[A consistent Calvinist must be] A Pelagian, in that you have the same view of pre-lapsarian man as Pelagius, and what must be lost is human nature, because nature…

  • Five Points Compared to a Few Soteriologies

    For those interested, I thought it would fun to provide a tableshowing acceptance of TULIP’s various petals (T = Total Depravity, U =Unconditional Election, L = Limited Atonement, I = Irresistible Grace,P = Perseverance of the Saints). T U L I P Pelagian No No No No No Pelagian ES No No No No Yes…

  • Premature Exultation – Semi-Augustinianism

    David Waltz seems excited by a quotation from R.C. Sproul regarding labeling Roman Catholic doctrine. Waltz writes: “The fact that the Catholic Church maintains that it is impossible to accept the gospel without grace (gratia praeveniens), this separates Her teaching from “all forms of semi-Pelagianism”; instead, embracing “moderate-Augustinianism, or of what might be called Semi-Augustinianism,…

  • Pelagianism, Semi-Pelagianism, and Semi-semi-Pelagianism

    B. B. Warfield described the infiltration of Pelagian error in partial form this way: But, as we have been told that the price of liberty is eternal vigilance, so the Church soon found that religion itself can be retained only at the cost of perpetual struggle. Pelagianism died hard; or rather it did not die…