No, not entirely but be honest, examine your church. Even my Four Square Church contained legalism to some extant along with other false doctrines.
My church isn't legalistic in the actual understanding of legalism.
Churches with canon laws are not legalistic. Legalism has to do with the Torah and its application in Christianity where it doesn't belong.
If a denomination is legalistic, it is unorthodox and must be immediately moved away from.
Lutheranism, Anglicanism, and Vatican Catholicism are all non-legalistic.
The more you teach the Mosaic Law and enforce the Ten Commandments, the veil covers your head. When you read the New Testament of Grace through faith, the veil gets lifted.
And now since you've known what legalism is and still accused us of it, then that makes your accusation worse, because we're almost into the territory of libel. All we need to prove that is that you knew what we did before hand and you'd be guilty.
"But even to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart. Nevertheless when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away."2Cor.3:15,16 NKJV Are you saying that this is farfetched?
I'm saying your ignorance of what our churches and denominations actually teach as well as the misapplication of that passage is farfetched.
Many pastors and their churches contain a theology that is both faith + works = salvation or faith + Law along with a little guilt = salvation.
1. The first example isn't legalism; it is a tautology if defined correctly. Otherwise, it isn't legalistic, but Pelagian or Semipelagian. That's not legalism.
2. If "guilt" in any way, shape, or form is directed towards Vatican Catholicism, sir, with all due respect, you have no CLUE what they teach.
I do. Vatican Catholicism isn't legalistic, Mark's Lutheranism isn't legalistic, and my Anglican Church isn't either. I understand their theologies well enough and my own EXTREMELY well enough along with a schema of ecclesial history and doctrine to know that for absolute certainty.
Continued false accusations will only make your position worse and worse. I'd suggest stop with the accusation of legalism AND LEARN INSTEAD!
The only benefit you have right now in saying this is that we have proof you haven't libeled, although you got
thisclose to it.
Examine your church or any denomination, you will find pastors and/or members that are legalistic.
Individuals do not a church or denomination make.
Don't think your church is perfect.
There's a difference between perfection and heresy or unorthodoxy.
Read the seven letters to the seven church in Revelation and you'll find that back when they got started, they had many promblems not just with legalism but sin.
Straw Man, proven with the above.
Only two were without critism, Philadelphia the faithful church and Smyrna, the persecuted. We find a mixture of all these problems in modern churches, with pastors, members all having a little leaven in their bread.
See above.
Here's the crux of the issue: you are using a term incorrectly despite knowing and displaying the knowledge thereof what it means. You've shown to have an extremely inaccurate understanding of our theology and two people have told you that. An honest person would stop and start learning instead of blindly continuing to make false accusations.
Ask away. I am not going to reply to any further insulting false accusations. I will happily teach but do nothing more.