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To: Campion

Okay, I didn’t get into the minutiae of Rome’s position, but I assure you the Arminian idea of free will isn’t too far afield from that of the papist. It’s certainly closer to that of Rome than Reformational Protestantism.

I refer you to Canon Four of the Council of Trent:

“If anyone says that man’s free will moved and aroused by God, by assenting to God’s call and action, in no way cooperates toward disposing and preparing itself to obtain the grace of justification, that it cannot refuse its assent if it wishes, but that, as something inanimate, it does nothing whatever and is merely passive, let him be anathema.”


89 posted on 07/26/2014 8:41:39 AM PDT by .45 Long Colt
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To: .45 Long Colt
Sad that you do not even know what the Catholic Church is....it's not just the Latin (you guys say RC) Rite.


91 posted on 07/26/2014 8:49:31 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: .45 Long Colt; Campion

What you listed, .45, is quite different from “choosing to be”. It is “co-operation” in the same sense that a drowning man needs to co-operate to be saved.


816 posted on 07/30/2014 3:36:40 AM PDT by Cronos (ObamaÂ’s dislike of Assad is not based on AssadÂ’s brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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