Comments on: Grace Offered For Obedience

By: Self Storage Stockport

Self Storage Stockport — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:22:17 +0000

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By: Bob Mutch

Bob Mutch — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:58:52 +0000

Hi christophmcleod; I would only see a person as an antinomian who claims that we are not required to keep the moral laws of Christ and a person as legalistic who tries to make sect rules a requirement for salvation. I believe in salvation by grace alone thought faith alone but at the same time I would hold that true saving faith will bring godly sorrow and repentance pre-salvation.

Further true saving faith will bring post-salvation obedience to the moral laws of Christ that the person understands — not those that they don’t understand (where there is no law there is no sin). Post-salvation faith that is not obedient to the moral law of Christ is dead faith (Jam 2:17).

I feel like we need to obey Christ because we love him and I agree that Christ’s law is there for our good.

By: christophmcleod

christophmcleod — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:25:58 +0000

Good change I think. Makes absolute sense about the verses being about what God wants his children to do, and NOT about how you become one of His children.

I appreciated your blog post on being forgiven too. I do have a slight problem not seeing myself as an “antinomian”, as you called it tho, in as far as, we’re not required to DO things to “get God’s love”. I can appreciate, however, that God wants us to live a certain way to fully live our Christian lives (e.g. “Don’t do drugs because it will ruin your life”, but not “Don’t do drugs because I Said So”).

Thanks for the posts