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Pelagians believed humans could achieve total perfection

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Imagine the sheer arrogance required to tell the established church that people do not actually need divine grace to be flawless. Pelagians argued that humans could simply choose to be completely sinless through intense willpower alone. The mainstream authorities found this optimistic self-help philosophy so deeply threatening to their business model that they viciously stamped it out as heresy.

Pelagians believed humans could achieve total perfection
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