Two significant Fathers of the Western Church, Saints Augustine and Jerome, in seeking to publicly renounce the false teaching of Pelagius, responded to Pelagius by countering that the power of Divine Grace was the only thing that could save man. ... But the Church, walking the middle path, denounces both teachings as flawed. ... Both grace and the consent of man are necessary for the salvation of man.

His true followers are not those who accept the principles of Christianity in word alone and yet reject them in deeds, but rather those who embrace them in both word and deed, and bring their life and manners and morals to order according to the divine commandments of Christianity.

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