Religion is the vehicle that those who don’t get the meaning of the New Covenant use to try to be worthy by their own efforts - they were rebuked for having fallen from Grace....
“Religion is the vehicle that those who don’t get the meaning of the New Covenant use to try to be worthy by their own efforts - they were rebuked for having fallen from Grace....”
The problem with that view is that it has more to do with late 20th early 21st century nihilism than it does with historical Christianity. It’s real popular now because we have so many people who want to empty Christianity of any absolute values that affect the believer’s actions. It’s all just a side show to the “Just Me and Jesus” movement - which has nothing to do with historic Christianity. Christ sent the Church into the world. He did not send a sentiment. He sent a Church with a visible hierarchy. He did not send youtube videos with a “I Love Jesus but Hate Religion” theme.
Satan works all the time. What he’s doing now is what he has always done. He’s attacking the Church - only this time people are actually believing they are supposed to be anti-Church to be Christian by proclaiming that there’s a difference between practicing the Christian religion and being a disciple of Christ. In reality, you can’t have one without the other, because they are properly one in the same thing.