@Thusnelda @KingOfWhiteAmerica @BowsacNoodle @bobbala @c00p @STP @Twig @inscius @Bunsen I believe Rome simply didn't think it wrong, as Western Theology was under the influence of Neo-Platonist ideas that Uncreated Energy could never simply be interacted with by created beings. In their eyes, distance must always be maintained between the Uncreated Creator/Immoveable Mover, therefore any interaction with that Uncreated Divinity must always be a creation that God has placed between us and God proper.

It's a lot of bad logic and the Western idea of Divine Grace was intrinsically linked with Augustine's ideas of how grace should logically be given out. Rome's idea of Grace soon became something else entirely beyond the original concepts by the Church.

(This post contains a lot of quick drive-by analysis that barely touched on this thousand year old theological argument, fair warning)