The Council held to Augustine's view and repudiated Pelagius. The Council of Orange dealt with the Semi-Pelagian doctrine that the human race, though fallen and possessed of a sinful nature, is still "good" enough to able to lay hold of the grace of God through an act of unredeemed human will. The Pelagians held that human beings are born in a state of innocence, i.e., that there is no such thing as a sinful nature or original sin.Īs a result of this view, they held that a state of sinless perfection was achievable in this life. This controversy had to do with degree to which a human being is responsible for his or her own salvation, and the role of the grace of God in bringing about salvation. The Council of Orange was an outgrowth of the controversy between Augustine and Pelagius. But here's a little bit about the Council held there in 529: Up until the other day, I didn't know there were any. There was not one Church council held at Orange, there were two. In any case, here's the link for you again:ĭivinity Library Instructional Guide: BibleWorks 7.0 Also, if you're like me, you probably only read Help files as a last resort, so you might have missed something really basic quite early on. Now chances are you aren't going to learn anything new from it if you've been using BibleWorks 7 for a long time, but sometimes we learn best by constant review and seeing things explained from a different point of view. However, in a Google search for "BibleWorks", our blog does show up and on the first page of the search is also this neat little link to an instructional guide to BibleWorks 7 from the Yale Divinity Library.
I think if someone is looking at BibleWorks 7 this website would be one of the best things they would want to know about because they would learn that when they purchase BibleWorks 7, they're not only getting all of the great things that come as part of the program, they're also getting a humongous list of other freebies, some of which are not available on any other platform.) (This actually is not even an ego- or monetary-driven plot. Did you know that if you Google "BibleWorks 7" this blog doesn't even show up on the first page of searches? Well it didn't yesterday anyway, but in a shameless effort in order to increase the logic of the search engine, I will try to mention BibleWorks 7 specifically more often.