tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4201628496305035793.post1462113523810183627..comments2024-03-17T03:12:26.931-04:00Comments on Reformed Reasons: Practical Pelagianism: Peeling The Evangelicalism MindsetEd Dingesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14007054168398086809noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4201628496305035793.post-43323504414111049522012-07-06T07:54:32.670-04:002012-07-06T07:54:32.670-04:00Pelagius has been condemned by many councils throu...Pelagius has been condemned by many councils throughout church history including the following:<br /><br />•Councils of Carthage (412, 416 and 418) <br />•Council of Ephesus (431) <br />•The Council of Orange (529) <br />•Council of Trent (1546) Roman Catholic <br />•2nd Helvetic (1561/66) 8-9. (Swiss-German Reformed) <br />•Augsburg Confession (1530) Art. 9, 18 (Lutheran) <br />•Gallican Confession (1559) Art. 10 (French Reformed) <br />•Belgic Confession (1561) Art. 15 (Lowlands, French/Dutch/German Reformed) <br />•The Anglican Articles (1571), 9. (English) <br />•Canons of Dort (1618-9), 3/4.2 (Dutch/German/French Reformed).1Ed Dingesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05761345786829868810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4201628496305035793.post-17218266262937670442012-07-05T12:25:01.396-04:002012-07-05T12:25:01.396-04:00Your blog is wrought with an assortment of egregio...Your blog is wrought with an assortment of egregious errors from works-based salvation to self-dependent security. I shall pass.Ed Dingesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05761345786829868810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4201628496305035793.post-23351777807381543032012-07-05T11:45:02.619-04:002012-07-05T11:45:02.619-04:00Sniff, sniff....smells like Rome to me.Sniff, sniff....smells like Rome to me.Ed Dingesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05761345786829868810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4201628496305035793.post-70085458117966507912012-07-05T11:42:22.485-04:002012-07-05T11:42:22.485-04:00As I said in my blog, death fails as an analogy in...As I said in my blog, death fails as an analogy in the view you defend. Paul should have chosen a different picture other than death to describe the plight of the sinful condition. The essence of your rebuttal is to say that Calvinists are illiterate...nice job.Ed Dingesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05761345786829868810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4201628496305035793.post-118300662049872522012-07-04T17:31:25.435-04:002012-07-04T17:31:25.435-04:00"Paul says that we were dead in our trespasse...<i>"Paul says that we were dead in our trespasses and sins (Eph. 2:1)"</i> -- dead man walking on the green mile. Its not a statement of something literally true in the now, but of something impending. Calvinists are just illiterate apparently.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4201628496305035793.post-79103782614966557532012-07-04T17:30:09.552-04:002012-07-04T17:30:09.552-04:00Pelagius was defending Christian theology as it al...Pelagius was defending Christian theology as it always was. Augustine was innovating, mixing Gnosticism with Christianity. The original sin narrative doesn't fit with the story of Adam and Eve as actually found in Genesis 3. We don't find anything there saying they either lost freewill or lost moral capacity. Quite the opposite, "Behold the man has become as one of Us, knowing good and evil..." The story doesn't even say (as Athanasian theology does) that man's likeness to the image of God was marred. Rather, man became more like God according to the confession of God Himself in the story. Pelagianism, then, is clearly correct, and the Islam-like throwbacks still teaching 'original sin' are going to eventually be pushed back into their caves like the neanderthals that they are. Amen.<br /><br />--rjAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com