Adding to the law, condemning what God does not condemn.
This is what the pharisees did, and so do other groups. But let us look at their objectives.
If you put sin worth of hell, on everything, you exclude the ability of anyone being acceptable
to God even when cleansed, purified and made holy.
So feeling annoyance, sin, feeling fear, sin, appreciating the beauty of an individual, sin, wanting
something to meet a need, sin, doing anything that involves yourself, sin.
So you end up with a belief system which is full of self condemnation, while allowing the individual
to not deal with the true sinful issues in their life, find real cleansing and sort their heart out.
This theology appeals to the disfunctional and those who refuse to repent. It provides them with
a way of feeling religious while staying in the world. The last thing in their mind is dying to self
and living to God, God is only followed on certain conditions, and one is not giving up pet failures.
An illustration of this if you have to have a clean house, rather than cleaning it, you say every house
is full of dirt so all fail, so there is no need to clean it, because it makes no difference.
And their response to anyone who says walking with Jesus and being cleansed is possible, they will
hound to try and get a sinful response, to then say, ha ha, found you out. This is no different than
sinners hating christians, and excusing not coming to Christ because no one lives a Christ centered life.
This is one step away from the universalists view of faith, all are saved, some just realise it.
