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To: muawiyah
antinomianism

Define, please.

83 posted on 10/28/2007 5:58:28 PM PDT by Not A Snowbird (Some people are like slinkys, the idea of them tumbling down a flight of stairs makes you smile.)
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To: SandyInSeattle
An example. Everybody believes they are "saved" so they gather in front of the Cathedral, take off their clothes and engage in an orgy thinking that God will approve.

Leastwise that's what early antinomian heretics were described as doing.

All the rest of us call it "tempting God" which is forbidden.

A good number of sites on the net describe it fairly well. In the present time wellknown antinomianists may be found in churches who post known homosexuals as bishops, priests or ministers. After all, officers of the church(es) are supposed to be soberminded and of good character, not given to sexual misconduct or other mischief.

88 posted on 10/28/2007 6:09:07 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: SandyInSeattle

Hope this is somewhat more definitive than muwaiyah’s topical example:

“The heretical doctrine that Christians are exempt from the obligations of moral law.

The term first came into use at the Protestant Reformation, when it was employed by Martin Luther to designate the teachings of Johannes Agricola and his secretaries, who, pushing a mistaken and perverted interpretation of the Reformer’s doctrine of justification by faith alone to a far-reaching but logical conclusion, asserted that, as good works do not promote salvation, so neither do evil works hinder it; and, as all Christians are necessarily sanctified by their very vocation and profession, so as justified Christians, they are incapable of losing their spiritual holiness, justification, and final salvation by any act of disobedience to, or even by any direct violation of the law of God. This theory — for it was not, and is not necessarily, anything more than a purely theoretical doctrine, and many professors of Antinomianism, as a matter of fact, led, and lead, lives quite as moral as those of their opponents — was not only a more or less natural outgrowth from the distinctively Protestant principle of justification by faith, but probably also the result of an erroneous view taken with regard to the relation between the Jewish and Christian dispensations and the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments. Doubtless a confused understanding of the Mosaic ceremonial precepts and the fundamental moral law embodied in the Mosaic code was to no small extent operative in allowing the conception of true Christian liberty to grow beyond all reasonable bounds, and to take the form of a theoretical doctrine of unlimited licentiousness. “


250 posted on 10/29/2007 7:13:05 AM PDT by BelegStrongbow (what part of 'mias gunaikos andra' do Episcopalians not understand?)
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