Errors to Avoid
Antinomianism Defined
Law and Gospel · 6 verses
Antinomianism is the error of rejecting the law's ongoing authority over believers, denying its third use as a guide for Christian living. It may claim that grace nullifies moral obligation or that justification renders obedience unnecessary. This error fails to distinguish between the law as a covenant of works (from which believers are freed) and the law as a rule of life (to which believers are still bound). True gospel liberty is freedom from the law's curse, not license to violate the law's precepts.
Scripture References
“What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?”
“For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.”
“Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.”
“Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.”