For anyone, especially Calvinists, condemning Pelagianism as heresy, I would ask that they reconsider using the term "heresy" so quickly based on a single council ruling, without considering what other things the council has also condemned. After all, "in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you." (Matthew 7:2)
Taken from The Canons of the Council of Orange 529 AD:
"According to the catholic faith we also believe that after grace has been received through baptism, all baptized persons have the ability and responsibility, if they desire to labor faithfully, to perform with the aid and cooperation of Christ what is of essential importance in regard to the salvation of their soul. We not only do not believe that any are foreordained to evil by the power of God, but even state with utter abhorrence that if there are those who want to believe so evil a thing, they are anathema."
Taken from The Canons of the Council of Orange 529 AD:
"According to the catholic faith we also believe that after grace has been received through baptism, all baptized persons have the ability and responsibility, if they desire to labor faithfully, to perform with the aid and cooperation of Christ what is of essential importance in regard to the salvation of their soul. We not only do not believe that any are foreordained to evil by the power of God, but even state with utter abhorrence that if there are those who want to believe so evil a thing, they are anathema."
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