[jo kus]

Man can NEVER emulate God

Your statement would be true if you added "alone" to the end of it. The teachings of the Scripture are clear that men CAN be righteous and follow Christ's walk IF the Spirit of Love comes to us and we cooperate with His graces to the degree we are capable of.

When you are confronted with the true holiness of God you know you can never even come close to HIS holiness .

Only someone working for salvation is required to be perfect. Those who are children of God are not held up to a perfect standard, just like we don't hold our own children up to such a standard.

Our call to holiness originates in the saved heart and is fully dependent on Him.

I am not aware of anyone here making the claim that Pelagius made - that we can come to God and be holy without graces.

Regards

[Cronos]

I am not aware of anyone here making the claim that Pelagius made - that we can come to God and be holy without graces.

Correct -- I'm not making that claim. The statement seems to be arising from a Protestant attempt to shoe-horn the idea of God into the idea of man -- trying to make it easier for them to think of God as a Big Human being with super-powers: as Kosta had pointed out in an earlier post, this attempt by us humans to try and comprehend what we have no chance of comprehending leads to erroneous thoughts.

[Forest Keeper]

Only someone working for salvation is required to be perfect.

Now THAT is a great line! I've never heard it before so I'll give you the credit when I repeat it. :)