Moral Perfection

I was just thinking this morning about how Methodists and Roman Catholics both think that Christians can achieve moral perfection. They aren't Pelagians, because they think that God is a necessary part of this. But with a little nudge of God's grace to get you started, you can become morally perfect through one's own striving. The Roman Catholics even think you can become more than 100% perfect. They say you can accumulate so much merit that you can give away some of it for other people to use.

I think a good way to describe this perfectionist heresy is that it changes the old saying about genius a bit, to say:

"Moral Perfection is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration."