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13 posted on Fri Jul 06 2012 09:40:47 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time) by wideawake: “Compare this: ‘We deny that Adam's sin resulted in the incapacitation of any person's free will’ With: ‘When God touches man's heart through the illumination of the Holy Spirit, man himself is not inactive while receiving that inspiration, since he could reject it; and yet, without God's grace, he cannot by his own free will move himself toward justice in God's sight.’ (CCC 1993) And: ‘Ignorance of the fact that man has a wounded nature inclined to evil gives rise to serious errors in the areas of education, politics, social action and morals.’ (CCC 407)”

That's a scary point.

I know this is old but it warrants comment. It looks like the official Catechism of the Catholic Church is better on soteriology than this statement by so-called evangelical Southern Baptists.

Politically, I think we all understand that conservative pro-life evangelicals (whether Arminian, Calvinist, or something else) need to work together with Roman Catholics in the political realm. What I'm afraid we're going to find out as evangelicals is that we have more in common with a fair number of Roman Catholics than with a lot of ignorant evangelicals.

That is our own fault as evangelicals to teach the basics of salvation. Rome is wrong, but semi-Pelagianism is much worse.

Yes, we have valid reasons to stand in the line of the Reformation, but if we're going to do so, it means more than criticizing Catholics. Apparently, we have people in our own evangelical circles advocating worse doctrines than the official position of Rome.

That should not be. We need to clean up our own house as evangelicals.