Tapsearch Com EditorThe Pelagian Heresy
June 5th 2009 18:22
By Ray Tapajna, Editor, Artists at Tapsearch Tapart News
THE PELAGIAN HERESY
( Why Not? Knock Knock Who's There? Philosophy and reason can bring you only to the door of Faith. To enter you must knock. Knock on the door and it will open you to a new way of living. )
The Arian Heresy ( see our last post ), challenged the Divinity of Jesus Christ as being God Himself. "No phenomenon during the first fifteen hundred years of Christian history can equal the amazing career of this heresy". * Rev Joseph McSorely .
Just as the Arian Heresy was inspired by pagan mentality, Pelagianism was brought on by pagan humanism. The Pagan was basically a nature worshipper and human nature was placed at the top of all life. The Pagans glorified man in his art and literature and tended to minimize the glaring defects. ( We see this in movie and art today where many morals are sacrificed for the sake of the acting profession and other art forms. Raw competition in the world of business is also accepted as something good and in other areas where the winner takes all. )
Christianity came and disrupted this hold on life. It spoke of a supernatural life, of supernatural faculties and of supernatural instincts. It taught man was destined to a higher end than that of his own full natural perfection. It said that man needed the help of God, - a help called grace. It even said that man could not ever reach his own perfection without this grace.
Christianity attacked Paganism, not in its weakest point, but in its strongest.
Pelagius, shortly after the year 400, made the popular appeal to a humanistic modification of Christianity. He was an Englishman, a monk by profession and though never prmoted to Sacred Orders, he had a keen mind and great ability, and literary talent.
He questioned the common teaching fo the Fall of man and its effects. He held that Adam would have suffered and died anyway without first submitting to sin. He maintained that Adam and Eve lacked no grace, needed no grace, but their free wills would have been sufficient to lead them to eternal life. Adam did sin but his sin affected himself alone and not the whole race.
Pelagius held that there was no such thing as original sin and infants did not need the redemption of Christ or baptism for the sake of eternal life. Man by his own powers alone, can observe the natural and positive law with perfection. Man could live with no sin whatever and attain eternal life. Pelagianism was about the destruction of Christianity for the sake of humanism.
Like Arianism, the Pelagian Heresy keeps coming back and rose again to plague us in our modern times even tough most of us know that only through the Grace of God are we saved and that The Shepherd is our Lord who guides us.
THE PELAGIAN HERESY
My Shepherd is the Lord - Knock Knock, who's there...
( Why Not? Knock Knock Who's There? Philosophy and reason can bring you only to the door of Faith. To enter you must knock. Knock on the door and it will open you to a new way of living. )
The Arian Heresy ( see our last post ), challenged the Divinity of Jesus Christ as being God Himself. "No phenomenon during the first fifteen hundred years of Christian history can equal the amazing career of this heresy". * Rev Joseph McSorely .
Just as the Arian Heresy was inspired by pagan mentality, Pelagianism was brought on by pagan humanism. The Pagan was basically a nature worshipper and human nature was placed at the top of all life. The Pagans glorified man in his art and literature and tended to minimize the glaring defects. ( We see this in movie and art today where many morals are sacrificed for the sake of the acting profession and other art forms. Raw competition in the world of business is also accepted as something good and in other areas where the winner takes all. )
Christianity came and disrupted this hold on life. It spoke of a supernatural life, of supernatural faculties and of supernatural instincts. It taught man was destined to a higher end than that of his own full natural perfection. It said that man needed the help of God, - a help called grace. It even said that man could not ever reach his own perfection without this grace.
Christianity attacked Paganism, not in its weakest point, but in its strongest.
Pelagius, shortly after the year 400, made the popular appeal to a humanistic modification of Christianity. He was an Englishman, a monk by profession and though never prmoted to Sacred Orders, he had a keen mind and great ability, and literary talent.
He questioned the common teaching fo the Fall of man and its effects. He held that Adam would have suffered and died anyway without first submitting to sin. He maintained that Adam and Eve lacked no grace, needed no grace, but their free wills would have been sufficient to lead them to eternal life. Adam did sin but his sin affected himself alone and not the whole race.
Pelagius held that there was no such thing as original sin and infants did not need the redemption of Christ or baptism for the sake of eternal life. Man by his own powers alone, can observe the natural and positive law with perfection. Man could live with no sin whatever and attain eternal life. Pelagianism was about the destruction of Christianity for the sake of humanism.
Like Arianism, the Pelagian Heresy keeps coming back and rose again to plague us in our modern times even tough most of us know that only through the Grace of God are we saved and that The Shepherd is our Lord who guides us.
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