WP117. Pelagius' View

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00:00Pelagia's View

00:07Fragments of the true teachings of Jesus remained alive in some people's hearts

00:15until a few centuries after his death.

00:20Yes, a small part of the Son of God's doctrine

00:24had not yet been distorted or misinterpreted by people at that time

00:30and some of them faithfully strived to fulfill the word that he had left.

00:38Proofs of this are the ideas defended by the theologian Pelagius

00:44who lived in the 4th century of our era.

00:48Among other things, he taught that salvation was in the very hands of the human being.

00:58Pelagius claimed that salvation was achieved by the individual

01:02through his right choice and self-effort.

01:07That was due to the exercise of free will

01:10a gift bestowed by God upon human beings

01:14and an integral part of their nature.

01:18Pelagius said that the ability to act at one's own discretion

01:22when properly exercised produces virtue

01:27the supreme good duly followed by reward

01:31since each one has the prerogative to choose between good and evil

01:36and from there to bear the consequences.

01:40In addition to free will, the Lord has endowed the human being

01:46with dormant virtues waiting to be awakened by the individual

01:51such as being interested in others.

01:55According to Pelagius, compassion was

01:58to feel someone else's pain as if it were ours.

02:03On sin, he asserted that the predisposition or inclination to evil was

02:11in itself a result of sin

02:14and that the habit of sinning

02:16eventually weakens the human being's volition

02:19and obscures his thinking.

02:23He also supported that sin being within

02:27could not be transmitted from one person to another

02:31which, in his view, would be immoral.

02:36If evil, corruption, could be inherited

02:40then God's goodness and justice would be destroyed.

02:45Original sin did not taint human nature,

02:50he asserted, indicating that man cannot hold

02:54the original sin or the fall of man

02:58responsible for his weaknesses.

03:01And he insisted,

03:03Pelagius preached that the Creator

03:22had not ordained anything impossible for human beings

03:26and that the frailty of the flesh

03:28was merely a pretext for not doing good.

03:33From Pelagius are also these words,

03:36No one knows better the measure of our strength

03:41than he who gave us our strength,

03:44and no one has a better understanding

03:46of what is within our power

03:49than he who endowed us

03:51with the very resources of our power.

03:55He has not willed to command anything impossible,

03:59for he is righteous.

04:03Close quote.

04:05Twelve centuries before Pelagius spoke those words,

04:09the prophet Micah had already taught his people

04:12the same concept.

04:14Open quote.

04:15He has shown you, O man, what is good,

04:20and what does the Lord require of you

04:22but to do justly,

04:24to love mercy,

04:26and to walk humbly with your God.

04:30Close quote.

04:31Micah chapter 6 verse 8

04:34And the author of Ecclesiasticus,

04:38Book of Syrac,

04:40also reiterated a few centuries later,

04:43He has not commanded anyone to be wicked,

04:48and he has not given anyone permission to sin.

04:52Close quote.

04:54Syrac chapter 15 verses 20 and 21

04:58Unfortunately, as with almost all good things,

05:03the doctrine of Pelagius,

05:06reminiscent of genuine teachings of Christ,

05:09was considered heretical by the clergy of that time

05:13and summarily rejected.

05:15In furious opposition to Pelagius,

05:18who taught that people are perfectly capable of not sinning,

05:24the theologian Augustine established

05:27a diametrically opposed principle.

05:30Non posse non pecare.

05:33It is not possible not to sin.

05:38From then on,

05:39Augustine's principle has always been enthusiastically welcomed

05:43by those who do not want

05:45or can no longer move their spirit in an upward direction,

05:50towards its development,

05:52as advocated by the Omnipotent Creator.

05:57They are the servants who buried their talents

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06:04as was their obligation.

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