Antinomianism

[Sherman]

Antinomianism

The doctrine or belief that the Gospel frees Christians from required obedience to any law, whether scriptural, civil, or moral, and that salvation is attained solely through faith and the gift of divine grace.


Some have taught that once persons are justified by faith in Christ, they no longer have any obligation toward the moral, scriptural, or civil law because Jesus has freed them from it.


Does anyone have more information on this theology?

Sherman

 

[A New Dawn]

[BIBLE]Romans 8:1-2[/BIBLE]

 

[Simonline]

Antinomianism

The doctrine or belief that the Gospel frees Christians from required obedience to any law, whether scriptural, civil, or moral, and that salvation is attained solely through faith and the gift of divine grace.


Some have taught that once persons are justified by faith in Christ, they no longer have any obligation toward the moral, scriptural, or civil law because Jesus has freed them from it.


Does anyone have more information on this theology?

Sherman

This is actually a popular misconception held by many Christians due to the fact that for nearly two millennia the Christian Church has tried to divorce herself from her Jewish roots. As a result she has developed an anti-semitic bias against both the Bible and the Judeo-Christian Faith which is now so deeply ingrained into the collective Christian psyche that many Christians are completely oblivious to it's existence or its influence upon the Christian Church. For further information on this subject see:

Jewish New Testament by Dr. David H. Stern, published by Jewish New Testament Publications http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/9653590030/qid=1047217782/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/103-0449173-6805437?v=glance&s=books&n=507846


Jewish New Testament Commentary by Dr. David H. Stern, published by Jewish New Testament Publications http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/9653590111/qid=/sr=/ref=cm_lm_asin/103-0449173-6805437?v=glance



Complete Jewish Bible by Dr. David H. Stern, published by Jewish New Testament Publications http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/9653590154/qid=1047217782/sr=8-2/ref=sr_8_2/103-0449173-6805437?v=glance&s=books&n=507846



Restoring The Jewishness Of The Gospel by Dr. David H. Stern, published by Jewish New Testament Publications http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/9653590014/qid=1047219547/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-0449173-6805437?v=glance&s=books



A Messianic Jewish Manifesto by Dr. David H. Stern, published by Jewish New Testament Publications http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/9653590022/qid=1047217843/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/103-9802279-3256601?v=glance&s=books

See also:

Jesus The Jewish Theologian by Brad H. Young published by Hendrickson Publishers http://www.hendrickson.com/html/product/30602.trade.html?category=all

Paul The Jewish Theologian by Brad H. Young published by Hendrickson Publishers http://www.hendrickson.com/html/product/32486.acad.html?category=academic

Simonline.

 

[Steve Petersen]

Right said, Fred.

The anti-Torah movement goes back to the Garden of Eden.

 

[Simonline]

Right said, Fred.

The anti-Torah movement goes back to the Garden of Eden.

Not in the way it is meant in the OP since Adam and Eve did not reject God's command (the Torah) in favour of antinomianal 'sola fide' in Jesus Christ...did they?

Furthermore, anti-semitism could not possibly go back that far, could it?!

Simonline.

 

[Steve Petersen]

I was thinking more about the question "Has God really said..."

Antinomianism is more a rejection of His authority, typified by the Torah. In this sense, the Adversary was the first antinomian.

Interesting footnote: Many sages of Israel believed that the Torah pre-dated creation and by means of it (the Torah, the Word (memra in Aramaic)) God created everything.

 

[Simonline]

I was thinking more about the question "Has God really said..."

Antinomianism is more a rejection of His authority, typified by the Torah. In this sense, the Adversary was the first antinomian.

Interesting footnote: Many sages of Israel believed that the Torah pre-dated creation and by means of it (the Torah, the Word (memra in Aramaic)) God created everything.

Absolutely, on all points. The basis of the Torah is God himself as a living Personal Being and not simply abstract principles by which even God is bound as Plato taught. One could even replace the word 'WORD' in Jn.1:1 with the word 'TORAH' and the text would still be equally true.

Simonline.

 

[Steve Petersen]

Simonline,

You and I must be reading the same books, Nu?

Have you had a chance to read The Messiah Texts by Raphael Patai?

 

[Simonline]

Simonline,

You and I must be reading the same books, Nu?

Have you had a chance to read The Messiah Texts by Raphael Patai?

No. I just talk with God directly.

Simonline.

 

[hraedisc]

"Sin is LAWLESSNESS." 1 John 3:4

I pity the antinomians on the day of judgment.

 

[Serapha]

No. I just talk with God directly.

Simonline.

Very little on this forum makes me laugh uncontrollably... but this "works"


~serapha~

 

[Simonline]

Very little on this forum makes me laugh uncontrollably... but this "works"


~serapha~

At this point I am sporting a facial expression like that of 'Mr. Spock' when bemused as to why the humans have found his perfectly logical approach so amusing?!

Simonline.

 

[hraedisc]

Antinomians, what do you say about "sin is lawlessness"?

 

[Simonline]

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Some heavy implications to 1 John 3:4.

If sin is Torahlessness and Jesus broke the Torah, he is a sinner. If Paul says it is OK to disobey the commandments in the name of Jesus, he is a false prophet (see Deuteronomy 13.) If the Holy Spirit seems to be guiding one into breaking the commandments, is it really a 'Holy' spirit?

For The Messiah to violate Torah would be for him to violate his own Divine Nature (since the Torah is the revelation to Mankind of the Nature and Character of God, to which we must conform and for which we have been predestined (Rom.8:29))

As a life-long Pharisee (even as a disciple of the Messiah), Paul NEVER taught anyone to violate the Torah itself, though he always taught people to repudiate the system that results from perverting the Torah into self-righteous legalism.

See [You may need to press 'Ctrl' whilst clicking on the link in order for the link to work?]:

Jewish New Testament by Dr. David H. Stern, published by Jewish New Testament Publications www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/9653590030/qid=1047217782/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/103-0449173-6805437?v=glance&s=books&n=507846


Jewish New Testament Commentary by Dr. David H. Stern, published by Jewish New Testament Publications www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/9653590111/qid=/sr=/ref=cm_lm_asin/103-0449173-6805437?v=glance


Complete Jewish Bible by Dr. David H. Stern, published by Jewish New Testament Publications www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/9653590154/qid=1047217782/sr=8-2/ref=sr_8_2/103-0449173-6805437?v=glance&s=books&n=507846


Restoring The Jewishness Of The Gospel by Dr. David H. Stern, published by Jewish New Testament Publications www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/9653590014/qid=1047219547/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-0449173-6805437?v=glance&s=books


A Messianic Jewish Manifesto by Dr. David H. Stern, published by Jewish New Testament Publications www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/9653590022/qid=1047217843/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/103-9802279-3256601?v=glance&s=books


also


Jesus The Jewish Theologian by Brad H. Young published by Hendricks Publishers www.hendrickson.com/html/product/30602.trade.html?category=all

Paul The Jewish Theologian by Brad H. Young published by Hendricks Publishers www.hendrickson.com/html/product/32486.acad.html?category=academic

Simonline.

 

[Sherman]

Antinomianism

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Antinomianism is the belief that Christians are liberated from the observance of moral laws when God's grace is active. The belief was first attributed to St. Paul, who declared that his opponents "slanderously" had charged him with saying, "And why not do evil that good may come?" (Rom. 3:8). Some proponents of early Gnosticism adopted a form of antinomianism in sexual matters, holding that people are accountable only in matters of the spirit. At the time of the Reformation, a few followers of Martin Luther took his concept of justification by faith alone to mean that the law had no bearing on the life of a Christian. In colonial America, charges of antinomianism were brought against Anne Hutchinson, who was banished from Massachusetts because of her beliefs.

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Sherman

 

[holo]

Antinomians, what do you say about "sin is lawlessness"?

Some people would probably label me an "antinomian". I don't know if I am, I don't care too much about denominations and definitions.

But I would answer that sin is also "everything that is not of faith", which IMO means that even seemingly good works may be sinful because they're done out of fear, legalism, pressure and trying to make one's own way to heaven.

 

[hraedisc]

Any person who lives outside of God's law is living in sin.

Dying in your sin is not a good thing. Jesus will empower all to obey God all the time, if they are willing and if they have believe. Mark 9:23

 

[elman]

Some people would probably label me an "antinomian". I don't know if I am, I don't care too much about denominations and definitions.

But I would answer that sin is also "everything that is not of faith", which IMO means that even seemingly good works may be sinful because they're done out of fear, legalism, pressure and trying to make one's own way to heaven.

Trying to please your Creator is not a sin. Being loving is not a sin. Being unloving is.

 

[Onesiphorus]

Antinomianism

The doctrine or belief that the Gospel frees Christians from required obedience to any law, whether scriptural, civil, or moral, and that salvation is attained solely through faith and the gift of divine grace.


Some have taught that once persons are justified by faith in Christ, they no longer have any obligation toward the moral, scriptural, or civil law because Jesus has freed them from it.


Does anyone have more information on this theology?

Sherman

Salvation is attained solely through Jesus Christ. I'm not sure how anyone could argue that Christ's sacrifice was not complete. As far as being "freed" from following laws, this is what Jesus had to say about that:

Mt 22:
"Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?" 37 He said to him, " "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.' 38 This is the greatest and first commandment. 39 And a second is like it: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' 40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets."

 

[Jon_]

Trying to please your Creator is not a sin. Being loving is not a sin. Being unloving is.

How do we please our Creator? (By the way, being loving isn't nearly enough. There are plenty of forms of love that God finds abominable.)

Soli Deo Gloria

Jon