Comments on: The Error Of Legalism https://tgnghana.org/the-error-of-legalism/ United For The Gospel Mon, 12 Dec 2022 17:17:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7 By: The Error of Antinomianism | The Gospel Network https://tgnghana.org/the-error-of-legalism/#comment-509 Mon, 15 Apr 2019 13:59:57 +0000 https://tgnghana.org/the-error-of-legalism/#comment-509 […] the previous article, we examined The Error of Legalism. In discussing legalism, one issue that always emerges is the place of the law in the Christian […]

]]> By: jennacar https://tgnghana.org/the-error-of-legalism/#comment-508 Fri, 12 Apr 2019 09:32:10 +0000 https://tgnghana.org/the-error-of-legalism/#comment-508 In reply to Enoch Anti.

If you READ Galatians 4:8 it refers to when they had not God.
Gal 4:8  Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods. 
These are folks who NEVER HAD THE TORAH. And the Jews were demanding circumcision AS A CONDITION of believing, not the fruit of it which was why that was being spoken of. They thought people had to come to Judaism FIRST via circumcision. If you’re going to focus on circumcision, then you might get to it from its first mention and then correctly identify the milieu that Paul was addressing: That of Judaizing believers who were creating an uproar despite the Jerusalem council’s advice.
I find it surprising that Christians can read James’ decision in Acts and not get it.
Act 15:19  Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God: 
Act 15:20  But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood. 
Act 15:21  For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day. 
“Moses” refers to the Torah. They were to a) keep the sabbath, and b) to learn Moses by hearing it read–just as they had since they had been in utero.
It’s simple reading comprehension and hermenuetics. You might try it sometime.

]]> By: Enoch Anti https://tgnghana.org/the-error-of-legalism/#comment-507 Fri, 12 Apr 2019 08:46:52 +0000 https://tgnghana.org/the-error-of-legalism/#comment-507 In reply to jennacar.

Thank you for making the time to read. Now I find it surprising you indicated Galatians is not about excessive law keeping and quote Gal. 4:8 to explain your point.

The fact is that the whole of Galatians is about Paul addressing legalism— where he indicates justification is by faith and not by works. Also circumscision carries with it legalistic thinking from the Jews hence the focus in the article

]]> By: jennacar https://tgnghana.org/the-error-of-legalism/#comment-506 Tue, 09 Apr 2019 14:44:44 +0000 https://tgnghana.org/the-error-of-legalism/#comment-506 Your data is inaccurate. First, Galatians isn’t about the dangers of excessive law-keeping. It’s about going back to what you knew before in paganism–and keeping that stuff. (Galatians 4:8). Your more serious error, though, is white-washing those who would keep commandments and statutes of the Most High saying that’s for one’s salvation. The very thing you chose to focus on: circumcision–was about the religious Jews requiring believers to become Jews FIRST. The religious prejudice that Peter seemed to be exhibiting also came from Judaism–from the Talmud.

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