Comments on: The Forgiveness of Sin http://willhumes.net/2007/08/21/the-forgiveness-of-sin/ "'Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.'" — Frederick Buechner Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:47:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Will http://willhumes.net/2007/08/21/the-forgiveness-of-sin/#comment-310 Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:27:06 +0000 http://s37651.gridserver.com/?p=967#comment-310 Carl,

First of all, thanks for stopping by and commenting. Pelagianism is the belief that we have a part to play in our salvation through the works we do. By and large, the Church has rejected such a view as heresy, though,as Pam points out above, many Christians seem to hold to this belief.

]]> By: Carl Redmond http://willhumes.net/2007/08/21/the-forgiveness-of-sin/#comment-309 Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:39:04 +0000 http://s37651.gridserver.com/?p=967#comment-309 What is pelagian?
I received ‘forgiveness of sin by understanding about ‘salvation by grace. In other words, there’s nothing I can do to bring about my salvation, it’s a gift from God.
There’s a little church here in Wollongong called ‘Good News Bible Church’ just 2 hours south of Sydney. They are Lorean. The local churches hate them, villify them. Maybe they figure if people get this message they don’t need pastors anymore!

]]> By: PamBG http://willhumes.net/2007/08/21/the-forgiveness-of-sin/#comment-308 Fri, 24 Aug 2007 08:55:40 +0000 http://s37651.gridserver.com/?p=967#comment-308 It strikes me that most Christians are either semi-pelagian or just plain pelagian in their beliefs about what “saves” them.

I do believe in ‘justification by faith alone’. That said, I’d also want to add Spencer’s marvellous phrase ‘with repentance and confession in vital, but non-saving relation to that declaration’.

What makes me uncomfortable is that ‘Pelagian’ seems to be an accusation that is often cast from the ‘conservative’ (whatever that is) end of the Christian spectrum on to the ‘liberal’ (whatever that is) end of the spectrum. This is often a fair accusation. On the other hand, I also believe that ‘having correct doctrine’ or ‘being truly repentant (according to my judgement of your repentance)’ is a ‘work’ and is therefore also ‘semi Pelagian’.

At the end of the day, grace is a very difficult thing for humans to get our heads around.

]]> By: One Thing I Know - faith, photography, culture, technology, life » The Cost of Not Forgiving http://willhumes.net/2007/08/21/the-forgiveness-of-sin/#comment-307 Fri, 24 Aug 2007 01:39:14 +0000 http://s37651.gridserver.com/?p=967#comment-307 [...] profound and moving.  It also serves as a good follow-up to my reflection the other day on the forgiveness of sin.  Capon writes: In heaven, there are only forgiven sinners.  There are no good guys, no [...]

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