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To: P-Marlowe
"thought that Pelagianism was declared to be a heresy even by you Latin Rite Catholics"

Pelagian professed that man has the ability in and of himself, apart from divine aid, to obey God and earn eternal salvation.

Every human person, created in the image of God, has the natural right to be recognized as a free and responsible being. All owe to each other this duty of respect. The right to the exercise of freedom, especially in moral and religious matters, is an inalienable requirement of the dignity of the human person.

The grace of Christ is not in the slightest way a rival of our freedom when this freedom accords with the sense of the true and the good that God has put in the human heart. On the contrary, as Christian experience attests especially in prayer, the more docile we are to the promptings of grace, the more we grow in inner freedom and confidence during trials, such as those we face in the pressures and constraints of the outer world. By the working of grace the Holy Spirit educates us in spiritual freedom in order to make us free collaborators in his work in the Church and in the world.

151 posted on 02/25/2010 9:19:05 PM PST by Natural Law
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To: Natural Law
Pelagian professed that man has the ability in and of himself, apart from divine aid, to obey God and earn eternal salvation.

That is exactly what you said in your previous post. Maybe you are a heretic or maybe the Latin Rite Church preaches Pelagianism. But your previous post was Pelagian to the core.

152 posted on 02/25/2010 9:32:41 PM PST by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: Natural Law
The grace of Christ is not in the slightest way a rival of our freedom when this freedom accords with the sense of the true and the good that God has put in the human heart. On the contrary, as Christian experience attests especially in prayer, the more docile we are to the promptings of grace, the more we grow in inner freedom and confidence during trials, such as those we face in the pressures and constraints of the outer world. By the working of grace the Holy Spirit educates us in spiritual freedom in order to make us free collaborators in his work in the Church and in the world.

I'm just wondering if you always copy and paste your posts or if you have any independent thoughts that are not boilerplate responses?

153 posted on 02/25/2010 9:53:57 PM PST by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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