Are Arminians Semi-Pelagian?

    I've heard some Reformed Christians refer to Libertarians (Free Will dudes like me), Arminians, Molinists, and others, as "semi-Pelagian" because we think that Man has the capacity to accomplish morally right acts before being repenting to God in faith. The famous heretic Pelagius also taught that Man has this capacity. Does this give Christians the right to call us semi-Pelagian?

    Only if Reformed Christians are Semi-Muslim. Hear me out. I'll be brief.

    Surah 11:118 - "Had thy Lord pleased, he would have made mankind of one religion: but those only to whom thy Lord hath granted his mercy will cease to differ. And unto this hath He created them: for the word of thy Lord shall be fulfilled, 'I will wholly fill Hell with demons and men.' "

    Reformed Christians teach that God, in his 'sovereignty,' could indeed have made everyone Christian, and every Christian Reformed, but in God's secret plan, He preferred that not all be saved and not all be Reformed.

    Surah 9:51 - "Nothing can befall us but what Allah hath destined for us."

    Reformed Christians teach that nothing happens except that God first decreed, ordained and determined (i.e. destined) it.

    Surah 14:4 - "God misleadeth whom he will, and whom he will he guideth: and he is the Mighty, the Wise."

    This sounds remarkably like the Reformed interpretation of Romans 9:18.

    [I completely acknowledge that some of my own beliefs as well are found in the Koran. I don't want to be called semi-Muslim any more than the next Christian, but I'll acknowledge facts here.]

    So my point, in the end, is not that we ought to call Reformed Christians semi-Muslim because some of their teachings are found in the Koran - but that we should not call Arminians semi-Pelagian simply because some of their teachings sound like Pelagius', either. We shouldn't attach "semi-" names to either group. If we were to attach "semi-" to the front of anything that contained any nugget of similarity with the person we're referring to, then we could add a great many names to a great many groups. We could even call Creationists semi-Atheistic because they both teach that the Earth is round, or we could call naturalistic evolutionists semi-Creationist because they agree that organisms have DNA. You could call me semi-Piper and semi-Sproul and semi-Calvin and semi-Luther because I agree with all these men that God is all-powerful, all-knowing, holy and eternal. I could go on.

    But again - in the end, these "semi-" terms are not very helpful at all, and seem to tend more to divide than unite. It's an ineffective tactic, and I think it needs to end, for the good of the Church.