Modern Day Antinomianism.

Christ's Bride · Saturday at 11:02 AM

Studyman said:
Well you seem to "hear". How do you know there isn't someone else who has been pricked in the heart by the difference between what this world's religions promote, and what the Scriptures actually say.

I believe these discussions are good to have, even if most just shrug them off.

oh there are and I am leaving in a few minutes to assemble with them

Studyman · Saturday at 1:07 PM

Christ's Bride said:
oh there are and I am leaving in a few minutes to assemble with them

What did I say that you would exclude me from an invitation?

under grace1 · 2026-06-08T00:02:29-0500

Aussie52 said:
Antinomianism is not a subject one usually encounters with others after Church on Sunday. Although as old as the Apostle Paul, it is very common amongst Christians today. From the Latin, Antinomian means 'without law'. Simply stated, the Christian is not under obligation to the moral law of God. It is a Christianity without any obligations.
'This error stems from a misunderstanding of the sanctifying power of grace. Though the person guilty of Antinomianism rightly understands that when we come to God for salvation, he accepts us the way we are, they also wrongly think that God is content to leave us that way. The Antinomian Christian is so enamored by the free grace of God; they abandon the hot pursuit of practical holiness. The result is Christians that are spiritually immature, living in the flesh, with one foot in the world and the other in the Church'. (From an internet article. Author unknown)
Today there are doctrines and teachings that encourage antinomianism.

* The teaching of 'standing and state' of the Christian. Popularized by C I Scofield, the Christian is said to have a 'standing' of being holy & righteous in Christ even though his 'state' is something quite different. It is God wearing 'rose tinted' glasses, seeing us other than we really are. This teaching tends cause Christians to be spiritually careless and carnal, all the while believing that in their 'standing', they are right with God.

*Closely aligned with this is the doctrine of imputed righteousness so popular today. Believing they are 'covered in the righteousness of Christ', that God views them through who Jesus is, this can easily become an impediment to practical holy living.

* The teaching that all our sins; past, present and future were forgiven at the Cross. This unscriptural view misunderstands the meaning of the atonement of Christ. Through Christ's death, He has made 'provision' for forgiveness of our sins. Actual forgiveness comes, upon confession 1Jn 1:9. Believing that all future sin has been forgiven has caused many to be soft on sin as they believe it to be already forgiven.

*The doctrine of eternal security or once saved always saved has lulled many into a false sense of security and led to carnal, unholy living, all the while believing they are still saved.

The above doctrines encourage one to be 'antinomian' as they lead Christians along the road of continuing in sin and despising the call to holiness.

Jude spoke of those of who turn the grace of God into sinful practices. Paul wrote, 'shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? God forbid' Rom 6: 1.
Modern day antinomianism allows and justifies continuing in a life of sin.

God has called the Church to a holiness, 'without which no one will see the Lord'. Heb 12:14.

* '''The teaching that all our sins; past, present and future were forgiven at the Cross. This unscriptural view misunderstands the meaning of the atonement of Christ.'''

Paul repeatedly states the christian is not under law/righteousness of obeying the law. This is only possible if Jesus died for all a believers sins, past, present and future.

What in Paul's view is the result of such a belief?

For sin shall no longer be your master for you are not under law but under grace Rom6:14

A spiritual message the rational mind cannot comprehend

under grace1 · 2026-06-08T00:06:53-0500

Aussie52 said:
As to the moral law of God as seen in the 10 commandments and refined by Jesus in loving God and neighbor, we are still under obligation to obey.

Then let us hope for example you do not suffer from dwelling on any impure thought. You never lust, unless it is for your spouse, you never desire anything of your neighbours, whether material goods or a member of their household. You never tell any even little fib about another etc, as in your view Jesus did not die for future sins.

I would say, antinominasm could be described as watering down applicable law of God for convenience

NewLifeInChristJesus · 2026-06-08T10:03:51-0500

Studyman said:
The answer to your question seems simple to me. There is a LAW that says, "The soul that sins shall die". If our sins are taken away, then we are no longer "Under this Law". We have been Delivered "From this Law". It seems foolish to promote the philosophy that we are no longer "under" the requirement "Not to kill" or "Not to Steal" or that God's Sabbaths have suddenly become "Unholy".

This seems simple enough. Don't break the law or the law will break you. But it begs a question. How does a sinner (a law-breaker) get his sins (his law-breaking) taken away? The law doesn't take it away. His commitment to a law-abiding future doesn't take it away. The answer is well-known to Old and New Testament saints alike:

5 But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness, 6 just as David also describes the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness apart from works:

7 “Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven,

And whose sins are covered;

8 Blessed is the man to whom the LORD shall not impute sin.” (Ro 4:5–8)

Studyman said:
Had you continued reading Paul's message in Romans 6, he clearly points this out.

This is a presumptuous thing for an old man to say to another old man.

Studyman said:
Rom. 6: 15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, (Dead in trespasses and sins) but under grace? (Alive to "put on the new man") God forbid. (I think this means NO!)

We know all too well that the flesh sees grace as an opportunity to sin. But to refuse to stand fast in our liberty for fear that we will become licentious is to entangle oneself again with a yoke of bondage.

For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh (Ga 5:13).

Studyman said:
16 Know ye not, that "to whom" ye yield yourselves servants to obey, "his servants ye are" to whom ye obey; whether of sin (Transgression of God's Law) unto death, or of obedience ( Belief, Honor and respect of God's Law) unto righteousness?

17 But God be thanked, that "ye were" the servants of sin, but ye have "obeyed from the heart" that form of doctrine which was delivered you. ( All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works. )

18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.

When a person receives Jesus into his heart, he is deliverd from sin and is made a servant of righteousness. This does not track bact to slavery to the law to obey every dot and tittle. No, it points to a truly righteous and holy new creation (Eph 4:24) -- one that joins a person to the Lord and makes him one spirit with Him (1 Cor 6:17). And a person does not flip-flop from one kingdom to the other and back again over time as life continues.

Studyman said:
In every Scriptures you posted, had you considered more than just one verse, you would find that Paul is also "anti-antinomian".

[Repeat comment from above]

Studyman said:
Rom. 7: 22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: 23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. 24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind "I myself serve the law of God"; but with the flesh the law of sin.

The delight we have for the law of God in the inward man (in the new man) and our mind's (our spirit's) servitude to the law of God is contrasted with the law of sin that is in our members (our flesh) and wars against the law of our minds (spirits). Our closeness to the sins of our own flesh make us feel wretched, miserable, and poor. But thanks to the deliverance that new life in Christ gave us, "There is therefore now no condemnation" (Rom 8:1).

So we see that these are not just words on a page. They reveal things that are happening inside the hearts and minds of those who are in Christ and they give us hope. Turning these vereses (Rom 6-7) into an obligation to obey the law misses the change of nature that occurred when Jesus freed us from our sins and gave us eternal life.

To me, it is neither antinomian nor anti-antinomian.

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