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To: 1010RD
He addressed His answer to the Pharisees who were constantly trying to catch Him in a legalism argument AND to you and me.

That assault from legalism is why the answer is so important in dealing with the legalism of Mormonism. It is also why Paul had such problems with the 'judaisers' who sought to burden new followers of Christ with the weight of Mosaic laws and the 'fullness of the Midrash'.

Legalism is a distraction which disheartens those freed from the wages of sin and death. The guide for life once adopted into His family ought be the Holy Spirit within, not the weight of legalism without, for we know no man but Jesus ever kept all the law.

When someone is bound up in leaglism it is a sure sign of either no new life or assault from a man-made system to empower other men not the born again.

634 posted on 10/03/2010 9:33:47 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Dems, believing they cannot be deceived, it's nye impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
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To: MHGinTN

What makes you think Jesus is also addressing me or you and not just the Pharisees?

How can God condemn a people he’d trained over generations, even from the first moment out of the Garden, to follow the laws?

God gave the Israelites 613 laws. Why?


635 posted on 10/03/2010 9:48:58 AM PDT by 1010RD (First Do No Harm)
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