Is God's Help Required to Merit Salvation?

Erasmus seems to waver between two positions, both of which would enable him to walk this tight rope. The first view is one we have seen in gabriel bille. When we exert ourselves to choose goodness, god helps by offering grace. Once grace has been received, meritorious acts would be a co operation between the human and god. But erasmus concedes to luther that it may come too close to pelagianism to admit that the original effort to turn towards goodness is entirely up to the human agent. So he suggests a second view, according to which even this initial volition also requires god's co operation. And that's good enough as far