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
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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Grace involves the extension of pardon for sin and freedom from His judgment and wrath by God to man. Without this grace, there can be no salvation whatsoever, no matter how many good works or faithfulness to a church one may have.
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However, this grace is NOT God removing the choice from man to accept or reject this grace - which is *not at all* the same thing as man somehow chooses to save himself in the pelagian sense of the term, which involved a rejection of man's sin nature...
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...and belief in his ability to come to God for salvation on man's own terms, which is something that no Baptist that I know of believes. Man chooses to accept or reject grace - but the choice is entirely circumscribed within the parameters God has sovereignly set...
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