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Archive - Spirit of the Word - Covenant Eschatology - Introductory Note - New Stuff
Nonreligious (non-legalistic) Christianity impossibleHi gang,
I'm constantly amazed by all of the laid back, ET-ists and annihilationists Christians who keep hyping and seeking to cultivate a "nonreligious Christianity" while deploring the fact that there is "so much legalism" in the body of Christ.
Whaddayathink?
In charismatic circles (the ones familiar to me) they are always chasing "Ahab" and "Jezebel" spirits and "religious spirits" in a frantic effort to get rid of all the codependency, manipulation and control and legalism that is rampant in the church.
Sheesh! What an exercise in futility!!
How can legalism EVER disappear as long as the BOTTOM LINE of the church's belief structure is--
"God values and helps those who perform correctly by a certain deadline and forever trashes and burns those who do not."
????
It is THIS lie that EMPOWERS the "demons" of legalism and religiosity. But few people really want to get rid of the lie. Most of them seem only interested in lopping off the poisenous fruit of the Religious Tree--while never destroying the toxic root. So of course, the fruit keeps cropping back up again and again, doesn't it?
It just does not compute with some laid back and mellowed out personalities among our ET-ist brothers and sisters that there will ALWAYS BE SOME PEOPLE who will take SERIOUSLY their bottomline belief "God gets rid of nonproducers"...
It's sad that such earnest believers who take the hell-dogma SERIOUSLY are labled as "legalists", isn't it? After all, they are only CARRYING OUT IN REAL LIFE what the church has required that they believe as "truth."
It you take ET-ism SERIOUSLY, then you are a legalist. If you do not take it seriously, then you are a universalist heretic! Actually what I've discovered that most ET-ist and conditionalist want is for us to take their doctrine "seriously"--while at the same time--NOT ACTUALLY taking it seriously in our daily lives... The requirement is to rest joyfully in the love of God (as would a universalist) WHILE ALSO believing "seriously" that He plans to get rid of billions of failures who either rest too much in His love--or not enough!
In other words, you are expected to "believe" that God will prove reliable to save only those who die in faith and obedience--and yet--you are ALSO expected to LIVE daily in the joyful trust that He will ALWAYS prove Himself to be more reliable than you are.
Can't win! Right?
Sheesh! HOW partialist Christians can imagine that it is possible to have an AUTHENTIC nonlegalistic Christianity under their belief structure is beyond me!
"God gets rid of failures" = "nonreligious Christianity"?
Nope. I don't think so!
Just sounding off a bit again...
Love you guys!
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