Legalism
Do a Google search on the phrase “is not a Christian” and two criteria will compete for first place in denying people a Christian identity.
Deaver does a great job on a narrow topic for a narrow constituency.
A take-off on Stephen Covey’s Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
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The Book of James alludes to an ancient philosophical concept everyone should work to understand.
Simone Weil described the human desire for order as like the preoccupations of a night traveler who must think constantly about the path ahead.
People are created for community.
Popular attitudes toward the Mosaic Law among Christians are largely negative. The Law is seen as being synonymous with “works.” It is the ground of legalism. It stands in opposition to grace and faith. No wonder Jesus came to destroy it.
Law can be a blessing and means of grace. A country may be wealthy in terms of natural resources, but it will be a land of deepest poverty without good laws widely obeyed. Law can, however, come to be an “embodiment of estrangement.”
Someone has said that sin is a turning away from God– evil is the distance traveled. In Romans, Paul views turning away from God as a principle (law) whose modus operandi is the use of good things for purposes distant (evil) in terms of God’s intentions. A good example of the “sin principle” is its [...]
A sacrament is a point where the divine and the mundane intersect– but is that really possible? How you answer that question will radically shape your understanding of legalism.
But when is legalism not really legalism?
The essence of legalism is misplaced trust in law-keeping as the basis for one’s standing before God.
Legalism is particularly seductive in an age of lawlessness.
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