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This is a somewhat helpful answer in distinguishing Catholics and Lutherans, but I’m not sure that it helps solve the dilemma. If we just define synergism as “human beings cooperate with God towards their salvation, even though God freely chooses to initiate the process of salvation”, then Lutherans must bend over backwards in redefining cooperation such that it excludes passively allowing God to work on us. Of course, as I pointing out earlier, this might have unintended consequences in our discussion of the nature of sin.
– Luke Hill
Commented Jun 21 at 20:32
@LukeHill, as I noted in chat, I'm not convinced you have a genuinely Roman Catholic understanding of Roman Catholic theology. 🙂 My understanding of the Lutheran understanding of Roman Catholic theology is that the RCC teaches that a more "active" form of cooperation is required. Is that a straw man? Maybe. If you are actually a monergist but think you're a synergist, that might explain your difficulties.
– Matthew
Commented Jun 21 at 21:06

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