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The usual way in which people use legalism, however, is different. Usually people use this word to refer to the practice of adding to Scripture and calling it law. Or making a gray issue into a black and white one.
The usual way in which people use legalism, however, is different. Usually people use this word to refer to the practice of adding to Scripture and calling it law. Or making a gray issue into a black and white one.
Agreed.
But it can also be used the other way - to make a black and white issue a gray one.... ie, your being too "legalistic" because we are under grace now not the law & we have freedom in Christ.
The usual way in which people use legalism, however, is different. Usually people use this word to refer to the practice of adding to Scripture and calling it law. Or making a gray issue into a black and white one.
The usual way in which people use legalism, however, is different. Usually people use this word to refer to the practice of adding to Scripture and calling it law. Or making a gray issue into a black and white one.
Legalism, in Christianity, is a term referring to an improper fixation on law or codes of conduct for a person to merit or obtain salvation, blessing from God, or fellowship with God, with an attendant misunderstanding of the grace of God.
Simply put, legalism is belief, stated or implied, that obedience to some law or set of rules, not faith, is the pre-eminent principle of redemption and/or favor with God. Its opposite extreme is antinomianism which claims that moral laws are not binding on Christian believers.