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To: Alex Murphy

Very interesting considerations. I think many people don’t realize that the option of coming back to Rome, while made as simple as possible for Anglicans, is going to require some serious analysis and soul-searching by them. They really will have to be quite honest about what they believe and quite thoroughly informed about what the Church teaches and believes, and then figure out where they can go from there.

That said, the British have always had a fondness for a sort of Pelagianism (Pelagius was from Britain, actually) which rejects original sin, believes that salvation is possible through one’s own means and that Jesus was basically just a “good example” for mankind. That’s what makes it possible for people to think they are simultaneously accepting Freemasonry and Christianity. Their version of Christianity is very naturalistic and Pelagianist, and differs very little from English Freemasonry except that it gives more preeminence to Jesus as a good example.

So they have a lot to think about before going any further, and I’m sure most of them (especially among the TAC) are aware of this.


5 posted on 10/30/2009 9:11:17 AM PDT by livius
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To: livius
Pelagius was from Britain, actually

In the movie "Captain Corelli's Mandolin" the doctor's daughter(the female lead part), a Greek girl living on the island of Kephalonia, was named Pelagia, pronounced Pela-hee-ia. Is there a connection with Pelagius, and is that pronunciation similar?

30 posted on 10/30/2009 3:11:36 PM PDT by 19th LA Inf
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