I've seen Catholics defend the practice on the grounds that it's essentially like asking people in your church to pray for you, which is one thing. Making it efficacious for salvation, however, indicates a corrupted soteriology, which is itself heresy
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The OSAS-type certainly are
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Though I think it's a bit of a stretch to say that "most" Baptists are Pelagian. Most Baptists essentially hold to the orthodox view that God's grace acts to draw a soul unto Him for salvation, but that we have a choice whether to a accede to or to resist that grace
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Yeah and if that choice is not also a function of grace/predestination you are a Semi-Pelagian, welcome to Hell we hope you enjoy your stay
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The problem with this argument is that it makes the same general error that most Calvinists make, which is to confuse "grace" with "God deterministically making people do things," which is where all manner of Calvinism's errors arise...
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To call Papist soteriology Palegian misunderstands it completely. At bottom it is Platonic and structured according to the refined form of exitus-redditus we see in Origen, Gregory of Nyssa, Proclus, Dionyius etc.
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To not understand Origen’s ties (and Alexandrian Platonism’s) to Pelagius is to show very little familiarity with the history of the debate
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I understand the ties. I reject the notion that what is polemically called pelagianism has anything do with the form of thinking which Augustine countered.
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