Good to see the law and grace debate is back in full force
we had a few days with folks posting on some crazy stuff like hell is not so bad and universal salvation stuff ... I respect legalist even as they are wrong, most of them want to obey and please God ...they just don't understand the difference between the flesh and the Spirit or how we have gone from the law of Moses to the law of Christ.
that strange, that you should bring that up, the legalist or religious legalist . even with no temple of stone, you cant follow, this law fully. is saying we will follow it anyway.
resulting, to this.
4 You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace.(falling back to jewish religion, etc.
they keep asking, how can you lose grace. in the case it is relying again on law of moses.
legalist as in non christian jew. also the law of moses
was attached to the law of the land.
keeping your mind trapped on yesterday ,(logos) you will not connect to the spirit,(rhema) today.(the spirit given after a return to heaven ie pentecoste, ..................ie forward in history etc.
ie the usa constitution said it ok to fornicate, be homosexual, etc. (a most of europe and the uk included) ie a religious taboo, etc
20 Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,21 so that,
as sin reigned in death,
grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.Romans 5 (baring in mind judge not or be judged.) death now being conquered, is not attached, to the law of the land etc.
so if your going to use face value scripture. cut off from grace. then you have a new enemy, not sin , not a demon, not the devil,
6 And between the throne and the four living creatures and among the elders I saw a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, with seven horns and with seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earthRevelation 5
3 When he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, "Come!"4 And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to
take peace from the earth, so that
people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword. (kill means slay)
and a ligalist is simple would be know as a police man back in the time of jesus. (would be close as a definition that comes near etc)
i dont have a problem with legalist either, because the new covenant, protects, in more ways that,one.
but if they are laying a foundation not in line with the master builder.( ie paul) they are just as well, being on a pogo stick, keep bouncing to no avail. etc.