The Highway Forums General Discussion Theology Discussion Forum Water Baptism as Essential to Salvation

yes, this notion of "final justification" via intra-covenant obedience is no different from the Roman idea of justification - they too affirm an infusion of baptismal grace[s] which assist one to perform good works, by which one is finally justified. It is interesting, that I "happen" to be native to a country in which Eastern Orthodoxy dominates as the most commonly established form of religion. It is EO which champions the idea of synergism perhaps even more aggressively than Rome. Corrupt as it is the Latin church still has Augustine as one of it's most influential thinkers (recall also Aquinas) and so Rome, at least has some fashion of a semblance to the scriptural idea of forensic justification and imputation, whereas Greek mysticism despises even the bare term as a "Latin juridical perversion". Speaking of synergism...This is off topic though :-))