Obsession may be a disease in the Body of Christ, but legalism is the lethal cancer that draws men away from God's grace and mercy and imposes the works-based piousness that kills faith and burden's men with impossible standards to live by that originate from the flesh of man, or the pit of hell, and only serve to exhalt man and his pride.
Legalism can quickly be sniffed out when we hear statements sounding such as this..."REAL Christians dontchaknow ALWAYS do this...", or, "REAL Christians dontchaknow NEVER do this...". Which is what you implied in your post. That is what I was addressing to you.
So your comment; "...mark of a serious Christian is that he doesn't have an elaborate endtime scenario..." lends itself to a legalistic prespective as you attempt to burden other believers with how they are to think and act...according to YOUR self-styled standards.
For cying out loud, THE BIBLE CONSISTNETLY TEACHES A "SERIOUS ENDTIME SCENARIO"...and Jesus taught a "SERIOUS ENDTIME SCENARIO"!
By your personal lofty standards of legalism, even John, Paul, Timothy, & Titus weren't SERIOUS CHRISTIANS. You come across sounding as though anyone who seriously studies end time prophecy is somehow less SERIOUS of a Christian than you are. THAT my friend is legalism in black and white.
Any other self-designed laws that you have made up that the brethren must adhere to in order to be "serious Christians" in your eyes?
Thankfully, we don't have to live by the rules of men (as the Pharisees imposed, when they burdended men with so many countlees rules that they stumbled men from seeing God's grace), but we live by the Spirit of God Who lives in us and by His grace and mercy. Legalism was vanquished at the cross.
I give thanks and agree with Paul when he wrote; "By the grace of God, I am what I am...".
So please be careful, lest you stumble someone.
Peace
Legalism is precisely what I protest: the notion that it is somehow obligatory for Christians to worry themselves calculating and prognosticating the future when Christ gave us a failsafe formula for being prepared for the end: always go about your business with godliness and there will be nothing to fear.
In an earlier post wideawake defamed Schofield and deliberately misconstrued some comments I had made in a most alicious manner. But I find this typical from many Calvinists(/) who post on FreeRepublic.
I won't answer wideawake directly because I feel it would be an error of the type described in Matthew 7:6