* Antinomianism, term used to describe those who believe that Christians are not subject to laws

" However John William Fletcher, Wesley's designated successor, used the term " evangelically sinless perfection " or " evangelically sinless " but notes in his book The Last Check to Antinomianism that " With respect to the FIRST, that is, the Adamic, Christless law of innocence and paradisiacal perfection, we utterly renounce the doctrine of sinless perfection.

Some Christians agree that Jews who accept Jesus should still observe all of Torah, see for example Dual-covenant theology, based on warnings by Jesus to Jews not to use him as an excuse to disregard it, and they support efforts of those such as Messianic Jews ( Messianic Judaism is considered by most Christians and Jews to be a form of Christianity ) to do that, but some Protestant forms of Christianity oppose all observance to the Mosaic law, even by Jews, which Luther criticised as Antinomianism, see Antinomianism # Antinomian Controversies in Lutheranism and Luther # Anti-Antinomianism for details.

* Spirit-centered Antinomianism … puts such trust in the Holy Spirit ’ s inward prompting as to deny any need to be taught by the law how to live.

The latter, who were left unmolested while the orthodox Jews were chafing under the heavy hand of Antiochus IV ( Antiq., XII, v, 5, see also Antinomianism in the Books of the Maccabees ) and welcomed with open arms every renegade who came to them from Jerusalem ( Antiq., XI, viii, 7 ), fell about 128 B. C.

It is argued that in Paul's time, Israelites were being faced with a choice of whether to continue to follow their ancestral customs, the Torah (' the ancestral customs '), or to follow the Roman Empire's trend to adopt Greek customs ( Hellenization, see also Antinomianism, Hellenistic Judaism, and Circumcision controversy in early Christianity ).

Wayne Brindle argues, based on Paul's former writings against the Judaizers in Galatians and 2 Corinthians, that rumors had probably spread about Paul totally negating the Jewish existence in a Christian world, see also Antinomianism in the New Testament and Supersessionism.

See also Biblical law in Christianity, Antinomianism, Progressive revelation ( Christian ), and Marcionism.

* Christ-centered Antinomianism … argues that God sees no sin in believers, because they are in Christ, who kept the law for them, and therefore what they actually do makes no difference, provided that they keep believing.

* Dispensational Antinomianism … denies that biblical law is God ’ s direct command and affirms that the Bible ’ s imperative statements trigger the Word of the Spirit, which when it comes may or may not correspond exactly to what is written.

For the theological view concerning opposition to or disregard for divine law see Antinomianism

There is some basis for selectiveness in the New Testament — according to the Council of Jerusalem in ( as well as some of Paul's letters ; see Antinomianism in the New Testament ), Gentile Christians are not obliged to keep the entire Old Testament Law.

* Situationist Antinomianism … says that a motive and intention of love is all that God now requires of Christians, and the commands of the Decalogue and other ethical parts of scripture, for all that they are ascribed to God directly, are mere rules of thumb for loving, rules that love may at times disregard.

In the two cited verses Paul literally declares himself as one who is loyal to God, or an ardent observer of the Law, but see also Antinomianism in the NT.

The quoting of Moses ' dictate is also seen as a rejection of Antinomianism.

The entire Mosaic Law is described in as a tutor which is no longer necessary, according to some interpretations, see also Antinomianism in the New Testament.

The PRC rejects Antinomianism, believing instead that God calls the people of the covenant to believe and obey and that He personally and entirely produces in them the required faith and works.

* Dualistic Antinomianism ( Gnostic ) This view sees salvation as for the soul only, and bodily behavior as irrelevant both to God ’ s interest and the soul ’ s health …

" See also Antinomianism.

See also Antinomianism in the Books of the Maccabees.

:( 2 ) He holds that Christians should stop " the widespread practice of contrasting the primitivism, tribalism and formalism of the Old Testament ( see also Antinomianism ) with the spirituality, universalism, and freedom of the New, to the manifest disadvantage of the former.

Antinomianism has been a point of doctrinal contention in the History of Christianity, especially in Protestantism.

His Checks to Antinomianism later became a standard for Pentecostally-inclined holiness teachers.

See also Antinomianism and Marcionism and The Law of Christ.

The work consists of religious dialogues which discuss the doctrine of the atonement and aim to guide the reader safely between Antinomianism and Neonomianism.

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