Saturday, August 4, 2012

Pelagianism

By Pete Orta

The morality of the Social Justice Movement is Pelagianism.

"When the Pelagians pointed to the virtues of the heathen, who 'merely through the power of innate freedom' were often merciful, discreet, chaste, and temperate, he (Augustine) answered that these so-called virtues were sins, because they did not spring from faith. He admits that the heathen can perform certain acts which are in themselves good and from a lower point of view even praiseworthy, but yet conciders these deeds, as the deeds of unregenerate persons, to be sin, because they do not spring from the motive of love to God or of faith, and do not answer to the right purpose, the glory of God. He (Augustine) denies that such deeds are the fruit of any natural goodness in man." ~ Berkhof

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