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PELAGIAN!: The Calvinist’s favorite Boogyman label!

***Share this when you’re labeled a Pelagian to help educate our Calvinistic friends***

Provisionists affirm that humanity is profoundly corrupted by sin and utterly dependent on God’s grace for salvation and any lasting good, which alone would disqualify us from what has become known today as “Pelagian.”

What Provisionism rejects is the Calvinist formulation of “total depravity” —the specific claim that people are born guilty of Adam’s personal sin (original guilt) and incapable of responding to God’s gracious call to repent and believe, as if the Fall rendered us spiritually dead in a way that eliminates any meaningful human responsibility or positive responsiveness apart from an irresistible, regenerating grace given only to the elect.

The early church fathers before Augustine’s debate with Pelagius consistently taught the effects of the Fall—corruption, mortality, and a bent toward sin—while preserving human free will, moral responsibility, and the ability to respond to God’s call. This aligns closely with the position I affirm.

• Irenaeus of Lyons (c. 130–202 AD), in Against Heresies (Book 4.37): “Men are possessed of free will, and endowed with the faculty of making a choice… God made man a free [agent] from the beginning… so that those who had yielded obedience might justly possess what is good.” He affirmed the Fall’s consequences (solidarity with Adam’s disobedience) but insisted on retained liberty: humans bear responsibility because they can choose obedience.

• Tertullian (c. 155–220 AD) emphasized that evil arises from the will, not nature: “Man… was a creature endowed with a capacity of self-determination.” The Fall is imputable to human choice, not an inherited total inability.

These fathers rejected Gnostic determinism and affirmed that sin’s corruption wounds humanity (making us profoundly dependent on grace) without erasing the image of God or the capacity to respond when God calls.

Augustine later developed a stronger view of inherited guilt and inability during the Pelagian controversy, which influenced Western traditions like Calvinism—but this went beyond the earlier patristic consensus.

Scripture describes humanity as sinful and in need of grace (e.g., Romans 3:23, Ephesians 2:1–3—“dead in trespasses”), yet repeatedly calls all people to repent and believe as a responsible response enabled by God’s provision (e.g., Acts 17:30; John 12:32; Romans 1–2 on general revelation and conscience).

Total depravity as “born guilty of Adam’s sin + utter inability to respond” adds elements not clearly required by the patristic reading of texts like Romans 5:12 (“death spread to all because all sinned”—often seen as participation or consequence, not necessarily transmitted personal guilt in the East). Eastern traditions often speak of ancestral sin as inherited corruption and mortality (a “disease” healed by grace) without the full Augustinian guilt transmission.

Why This Matters

This view upholds:
• God’s justice and love: He genuinely calls all to repent (Ezekiel 33:11; 2 Peter 3:9) and provides sufficient grace for response.

• Human responsibility: We are accountable precisely because sin corrupts but does not annihilate freedom.

• Dependence on grace: No one is saved apart from Christ; grace restores and empowers what sin has weakened.

Rejecting the stricter claims of total depravity is not Pelagianism—it’s consistent with the broader early church witness that sin is profound, grace is essential, and humans remain responsible image-bearers.

The label “Pelagian” is frequently a rhetorical shortcut rather than a precise historical match. True Provisionism stands in this historic stream: corrupted yet responsive to God’s initiating grace.

This position glorifies God’s provision for all while taking sin seriously. It invites faith as the reasonable response to the gospel, not an impossibility overcome only for a few.

[Hans Fiene 🦬 @HansFiene]

Heresies typically emerge because of unscriptural philosophical presuppositions or because the heretic needs to create a permission structure for pursuing the power or glory the Scriptures might hinder him from acquiring.

Joel Webbon, on the other hand, invents this half-gnostic, half-antinomian “it doesn’t matter if Jesus was Jewish” heresy on the fly because he wants to win the approval of the cringiest, stupidest Jew haters on the intent.

If it weren’t so sad, it would be comical how much of a staggering loser Webbon is. Genuinely, I don’t think there is a bigger dork on earth.

[Mrgunsngear @Mrgunsngear]

Maybe it's just me, but it seems really odd that DOJ's Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche held a press conference announcing the existence of snuff videos depicting human torture and murder & several documents have been released backing up the veracity of announcement yet no one has been arrested and the people on video doing these things haven't been identified.

Also, this isn't the #1 news story on EVERY network in the world. That seems really odd to me... 🤨

#EpsteinFiles #BigE #israel #UK #intel #blackmail #Epstein #murder #crime #torture #WTF #fail

[Provisionist Perspective 🩸🌍 @ProvisionistP]

If you don’t care that the passage has been changed, what more can I say to you?

[Melissa the Hopeful🏠Homemaker @BiblicalBeauty]

I’ll see your Tucker Carlson theological take on Israel and raise you a John MacArthur truth bomb.

“There is a Christian kind of popular doctrine that I reject with all my heart and that is that the church has replaced Israel in the promises of God. It’s called supersessionism. I don’t believe in that…I honestly think that it’s a latent form of antisemitism to say that.”

[Clandestine @WarClandestine]

Mother of God…

DNI Gabbard outlines an insidious “baby trafficking” operation being carried out by the cartels, where they would lure pregnant women, perform illegal c-sections, and sell the newborn babies…

This is what the Dems were allowing with their open borders…

[Joe Rogan Podcast News @joeroganhq]

Bill Maher: "They are systematically k*lling the Christians in Nigeria. They've k*lled over 100000 since 2009… This is so much more of a genocide attempt than what is going on in Gaza. They are literally attempting to wipe out the Christian population."

[RazörFist @RazorFist]

Every time you dunk on Mamdani, don't lose sight of why he's there:
Not Soros. Or media. Or New York lunacy.
But because of Ranked Choice Voting.

Many 'red' states are now pushing this scam.
Observe the disaster now unfolding for an object lesson in why it shouldn't be allowed.

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Calvinism In Decline After Trump And RFK Cure Autism https://t.co/lOT2buLN50

[T.J. Moe @TJMoe28]

You’ll rarely hear a better, more clear and compelling presentation of what it means to be a Christian than what @TuckerCarlson did here. Tucker understood Charlie Kirk better than most. It was all about Jesus.

[The Middle-earth Mixer @MiddleearthMixr]

@ABC If this picture of the young Captain of Gondor absolutely ripping a heater gets more likes then you remain an enemy of the people

[Wasson Watch Co. @WassonWatch]

"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

[Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11]

It’s all about Jesus.

[The Middle-earth Mixer @MiddleearthMixr]

@PamphletsY If this picture of the young Captain of Gondor absolutely ripping a heater gets more likes then LOTR is right wing and this post sucks

[Brandy @LibertyBelle208]

NEVER FORGET.

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[Darwin to Jesus @darwintojesus]

As a child, atheist historian Tom Holland was fascinated with ancient civilizations like Rome, Greece, and Persia.

But the more he studied them, the more alien they became.

Why were they so different from us?

This is what he discovered (thread)🧵

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