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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yes agreed. It’s fairly innocuous except that papists are also Pelagians - but then so are most Baptists (just for a different set of works)
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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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This avoids both the errors of works salvation and Calvinism, each erring from the faith once received in one direction or the other
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If Arminianism is not the position of an absolute majority of Baptists it is only b/c it leads so rapidly to moral-therapeutic deism and then secularism
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