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To: daniel1212
So that’s what you need to do if you want to come to God and be saved: Repent, have faith, and be baptized. If you do these things, you’ll be in a state of grace, and as long as you remain in a state of grace, you’ll go to heaven. But we still have free will, and we can still turn our backs on God and fall from grace, ...

Pelagianism is the belief that original sin did not taint human nature and that mortal will is still capable of choosing good or evil without special Divine aid. - Wikipedia

442 posted on 07/22/2015 11:53:17 AM PDT by HarleyD ("... letters are weighty, but his .. presence is weak, and his speech of no account.")
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To: HarleyD
Pelagianism is the belief that original sin did not taint human nature and that mortal will is still capable of choosing good or evil without special Divine aid. - Wikipedia

What you are responding was not in the post you responded to (post 329 ) nor did i elsewhere say that mortal will is still capable of choosing good or evil without special Divine aid, but i have said just the opposite.

530 posted on 07/22/2015 8:19:30 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned and destitute sinner+ trust Him to save you, then follow Him!)
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To: HarleyD

Ops, correction: I have said and hold that man can choose evil without Divine aid. I do not even think he necessarily needs the devil.


533 posted on 07/22/2015 8:21:11 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned and destitute sinner+ trust Him to save you, then follow Him!)
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