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| | LEGALISM. An outline study of what the Bible says about legalism. |
 | | Legalism is contrary to Christian obedience, which is "listening under" the direction of the | | | B. The concept of "legalism" is found extensively throughout the Bible. | | | A. The term "legalism" is not used in the Bible |
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http://www.christinyou.net/pages/legalism.html
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| | Sermon Outline |
| | Legalism has a distorted sense of significance (vv. | | | They do, however, share a common arrogance, selfishness, and pride. | | | Legalism saw the holiest man that ever lived as being unholy (Matt. |
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http://www.discoveret.org/karns/sermons/062099pm.htm
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| | An Allegory about Legalism |
| | Abraham and Sarah took matters into their own hands and Ishmael was conceived through a physical union between Abraham and Hagar. | | | Beware the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy" | | | Though the Lord fulfilled his promise to Abraham and Sarah years later with the birth of Isaac, Jacob's father, the law (Sarah's good intentions) robbed them of much of the joy and peace of God's fulfilled promise. |
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http://www.annemurchison.com/legalism.htm
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| | Escaping God's grace Into legalism With Music |
| | The internal effect would be "singing and making melody in the heart and directed to God." | | | Escaping God's Grace into Legalism: the Musical Burden | | | This frenzy of anxiety is the result of escaping God's grace into neo-legalism or ceremonial legalism. |
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http://www.piney.com/MuBurden.html
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| | Legalism and Antinomianism |
| | Legalism and Antinomianism Rev. Reggie Kimbro (audio series) | | | Legalism is a system that judges an individual's relationship to God in terms of adherence to man-made rules. | | | Legalism is the former of the two religions which expresses itself in two ways: either a sinner, can, (1) by his own efforts or (2) with the Spirit's help, exert effort to either gain or maintain salvation. |
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http://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/articles/topic/legalism-anti.html
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| | Legalism |
| | All you must do is repent for your sin and believe that God’s mercy has forgiven you, and that His grace will help you live above this vice. | | | Legalism teaches a salvation that is based upon human works instead of God's grace. | | | Legalism is a mentality, that leads to a way of life, which leads to doctrines not found in the Bible, which leads to a reliance upon one's performance, instead of Jesus' performance at Calvary for salvation, which leads to spiritual death. |
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http://www.apostolic.net/biblicalstudies/legalism.htm
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| | Viewpoint Bible Studies #17-21 -- What Is Legalism? |
| | They feel that those who perfectly understand and observe the laws they like are sure of salvation and all others will NOT be saved. | | | Salvation is based on perfect and persistent observance of the law code which expresses their best understanding of God's will for man today. | | | In the final analysis, the righteousness to which legalism aspires is that which the self achieves by its own efforts. |
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http://www.sofnet.com/~outreach/study017.html
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| | SermonAudio.com - Patriarchy: A New Legalism? |
| | While most teachers are too timid to get specific on child-rearing, loving a wife, providing for a family, etc., Doug and Phil have “stuck their necks out” so to speak and addressed the practical applications of God’s Word. | | | Please also listen to the second sermon in this series, Patriarchy and Education, where clarifications and definitions are offered to better understand this subject. | | | Try our help and FAQ page with a list of recommended MP3 players or try our public message board to post questions and get help from other listeners. |
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http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?sermonID=11104114932
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| | Legalism, What Exactly Is It? |
| | However definition number four does not even allow the contribution of grace in man's salvation. | | | This meaning of legalism has man alone saving himself and rising to such an intrinsic level that he can demand his salvation. | | | Simply considering the letter of the law, believing and teaching that salvation is a result of man's good works, or that man is saved without grace constitute legalism in the terrible sense of the term. |
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http://www.bibletruths.net/Archives/BTAR214.htm
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| | Legalism Grace Obedience |
| | After all, we don't want to be legalistic." | | | The remedy for legalism is the same remedy for most problems in the Christian life. | | | As we consider this word legalism, we need to ask ourselves some questions. |
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http://www.inplainsite.org/html/legalism_grace_obedience.html
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| | To teach that he will be our top priority, that everything will be counted a loss compared to Christ (Phil. | | | Is it legalism to teach that because of God's mercy we choose to willingly offer our lives as living sacrifices for him (Rom. | | | A Christian doesn't obey God because of a set of rules that exist; rather, he obeys God because he loves God. |
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http://www.obeygod.com/legalism.htm
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| | LEGALISM |
| | The bartender would tell me what I wanted to hear, rather than what I needed to hear. | | | Fear is the corroding thread permeating the life of the practicing alcoholic and the legalist. | | | The legalists, like the alcoholic, must locate and use enablers or so-called friends that will tell them what they want to hear instead of what they need to hear. |
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http://www.stradicalontheweb.net/untitled1.html
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| | Theologia :: Soteriology :: Whose Legalism? Which Works-Righteousness? |
| | But more than simply affirming salvation by grace through faith, the speakers specifically targeted what they viewed as legalism and advocated a higher view of the grace as the only antidote. | | | When we say that all of God’s word is perfect, converting the soul. | | | The conclusion of Ecclesiastes in his ruminations about life is this, "All has been heard, here is the conclusion: Fear God and keep his commandments for this is the whole duty of man." |
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http://www.hornes.org/theologia/content/mark_horne/whose_legalism_which_worksrighteousness.htm
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| | Amazon.com: Books: Left Legalism/Left Critique |
| | The essays themselves vary by topic, by theoretical approach, and by conclusion. | | | Still others leave open the question of what is to be done as they devote their critical attention to understanding what we are doing. | | | This conjunction of a turn toward left legalism with a turn away from critique has hardened an intellectually defensive, brittle, and unreflective left sensibility at a moment when precisely the opposite is needed. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0822329689?v=glance
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| | The isms of Legalism |
| | Sing New Songs — And Old Ones, Too! | | | Legalism is a philosophy that has given birth to a number of other isms that help to perpetuate and reinforce the concept. | | | In turn, denominationalism fits right in with legalism because we stress that wearing the right name is a part of the "package" that merits us favor with God and helps to insure us of a home in heaven. |
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http://www.freedomsring.org/isms.html
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| | Harvard University Press/Legalism/Reviews |
| | OTHER HARVARD BOOKS BY JUDITH N. American Citizenship: The Quest for Inclusion | | | From any point of view, Legalism is a highly original and rewarding contribution to legal philosophy. | | | [Shklar] has written a startling and original essay criticizing most of contemporary legal philosophy...[This book] is written with a masterful style and a force and conviction rare in legal scholarship. |
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http://www.hup.harvard.edu/reviews/SHKLEX_R.html
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| | Legalism |
| | Legalism disregards the past--conditions were different back then, so what worked back then would not necessarily work in the present time. | | | Legalism is a pessimistic philosophy--while conceding that it would be wonderful to have a sage for ruler, the reality was that there just weren't many sages around. | | | The practical thing would be to have a system where even an average man could rule and the state would stay intact. |
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http://www.geocities.com/tokyo/springs/6339/Legalism.html
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| | Legalism |
| | Religion and Legalism are Satan's Ace and King of trump, the primary means by which he "blinds the minds of those who seek Christ" and which are included in Eph. | | | Legalism is a religious system that teaches that a person can do something to earn or merit salvation or blessing from God. | | | The word "legalism" also refers to any merit system which operates by works, by which a person tries to please God, or to assist God, or to glorify God by human power. |
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http://www.realtime.net/~wdoud/topics/legalism.html
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| | The Watchman Expositor: Legalism - A Zeal for God, or Self? |
| | This is the legalism Paul addressed in Galatians. | | | It is a difficult life to live when salvation depends on the quality of one’s human works. | | | This form says there is something in addition to Christ’s work on Calvary that must be included to achieve salvation. |
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http://www.watchman.org/cults/legalismzeal.htm
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| | Legalism |
| | Legalism is a political philosophy that does not address higher questions pertaining to the nature and purpose of existence. | | | 233 BCE) who systematised the various strands of Legalism in his work The Han Fei-tzu. | | | Han Fei-tzu had been taught by the Confucianist Hsun-tzu, whose philosophy claimed that people were basically evil but could be guided towards goodness. |
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http://philtar.ucsm.ac.uk/encyclopedia/china/legal.html
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| | Obedience-Legalism |
| | Invite the Spirit into the form and stand with the publican and pray, "God be merciful to me a sinner" (Luke 18:13). | | | Legalism is an outside form without the Spirit of God living inside. | | | Luther called the Anabaptists ketzer which means "the perfect ones" or "you little perfect ones." This was said in a belittling way, making light of their obedience to scripture. |
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http://www.bibleviews.com/Obedience-Legalism.html
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| | The Divine Hermeneutics: Legalism, Binding Where God Has Not ~ Donnie Rader |
| | We must only speak what is found in the oracles of God (1 Peter 4:11). | | | The apostles were instructed that what they would teach by inspiration would be what God had already bound in heaven (Matthew 19:19; 18:18). | | | Striving to obey the Lord and demand that others do so as well, is not legalism for God demands that we obey him. |
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http://www.watchmanmag.com/0610/061019.htm
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| | Mike Taylor - From Legalism to Grace |
| | Legalism is always doomed to failure because we are imperfect and the God that we seek to impress is perfect. | | | This makes it crucial that we fully understand grace, and understand how it can be undermined in our lives by its arch enemy, legalism, which is essentially any attempt to improve on what God has done for us by adding things that we do for him. | | | ``Get rid of that slave woman and her son!'' Like Abraham's Sarah, we must be uncompromisingly brutal in flatly refusing to accept the Ishmael of legalism, who will bully the Isaac of grace if we allow him to. |
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http://www.miketaylor.org.uk/xian/legalism.html
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| | Legalism |
| | Legalism can be seen as "a way of thinking about social life, a mode of consciousness" which structures our social experience. | | | Legalism instilled ‘laissez-faire morality' in its converts: the presumption that proper decisions were the decisions that the legal system produced." [ | | | Law is endowed with its own discrete, integral history, its own "science," and its own values, which are all treated as a single "block" sealed off from general social history, from general social theory, from politics, and from morality. |
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http://www.wvu.edu/~lawfac/jelkins/pmpl99/fragments/legalism.html
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| | Legalism |
| | The term "legalist" is not found in the Bible. | | | However, the concept is. The threat of Legalism has been around since the first century. | | | The book of Galatians is written to dispel the threat of "Legalism" among God's people. |
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http://www.christianhomesite.com/indy/text/legalism.htm
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| | Recovering from Legalism |
| | Legalism is any system, rules, expectations or regulations that promise God's love in return for human effort and obedience. | | | Legalism is a spiritually toxic virus unique to humans, spread by religion, best treated by God's unconditional and amazing grace. | | | Under the cloak of Christianity legalism offers salvation as a reward for performance. |
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http://www.ptm.org/legalism
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| | Christian Recovery Forums - Quotes regarding Evangelical Legalism |
| | Instead, we have developed another brand of legalism, a brand that is concerned, not with salvation, but with how we live the Christian life. | | | I just came back and I've been re-reading your post. | | | The bible says God puts us in a broad place. |
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http://www.christianrecovery.com/vb/printthread.php?t=16
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| | FWB Net - Forum - General Interest - is KJV tied to legalism? |
| | I agree with you that the perception of what you see is real but I think it stems from very few folks who can be vocal saying that if you don't use THIS version of the scriptures, then you're not using the true Word of God. | | | There are those who like the KJV and don't think it is the only version but it is their choice of version to read, and it seems to often they are even linked to legalism because it is there choice. | | | Example, I told a friend about this website, so he checked it out, first thread he read was one i started aobut what translation do you like, He is a KJV guy, not a only a KJV but that is his version he liked. |
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http://www.freebaptist.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=2306&forum=1
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| | Printable version - Legalism |
| | Purveyors of religious error often redefine otherwise good terms, placing their own spin on the word, and thereby subjecting unsuspecting listeners to their false doctrine. | | | What exactly is “legalism” according to the Bible? | | | Legalism pertains to one’s attitude about his own person (i.e., having an inflated sense of self-importance—Luke 18:11-12; Proverbs 25:27; Romans 12:3) and practice (i.e., thinking he or she can earn or merit salvation on the basis of performance—Luke 17:10; Romans 3:9-18,23; 11:35; 1 Corinthians 9:16). |
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http://www.apologeticspress.org/modules.php?name=Print&cat=7&itemid=2265
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| | Legalism: The Real Thing |
| | This too is a biblical form of legalism and, along with its soteriological cousin, it is rejected by the Jerusalem Council. | | | From a NT vantage point, a preoccupation with a lot of negative rules which are not explicit in the Bible is not legalism at all. | | | After all, as Paul points out in the passage just quoted above, we ought to do this "even as Christ pleased not Himself; but as it is written, ‘The reproaches of those who reproached You fell on Me’" (Rom 15:3). |
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http://www.faithalone.org/journal/1996ii/Hodges.html
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| | Crosswalk.com |
| | As holding out the hope of salvation on the basis of human effort, such works are the antithesis of God's saving grace set forth in Christ crucified. | | | The term "legalism" commonly denotes preoccupation with form at the expense of substance. | | | From this perspective the strictly legal parts of the Old Testament stand in a narrative setting whose design is to recount God's dealings with his people so as to give them Torah or instruction in the way of life he desires for them. |
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http://bible.crosswalk.com/Dictionaries/BakersEvangelicalDictionary/bed.cgi?number=T430
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| | Crosswalk.com - Author Urges Christians: Get Liberated From Legalism |
| | But today, the author and counselor says legalism often takes a form that does not so much emphasize what not to do as put pressure on the believer about what he or she should be doing. | | | Paul Travis says for years he was a spiritual performer who felt driven to work hard for God. | | | He says past concepts of legalism mostly involved rules about what not to do, preventing believers from doing this or that negative thing. |
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http://www.crosswalk.com/news/1244250.html
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| | Legalism according to Schwartz |
| | They were a group of social reformers inspired by the Industrial Revolution, who wanted to introduce new social values to replace the (outdated, agrarian) social mores and practices. | | | The rise of Legalism was also related to the rise of new rulers who had overthrown legitimate old rulers and who now need new laws, not tradition, to justify and buttress their rule. | | | In this chapter, Schwartz provides not only a systematic introduction to Legalism, but also to the background against which Legalism started. |
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http://www.iun.edu/~hisdcl/h425/legalists2.htm
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| | LEGALISM VS OBEDIENCE |
| | I have heard others who are into the laughing deception where they bark like dogs and laugh out of control while claiming it is the Holy Spirit, make the same claim of 'legalism' against those who feel what they are doing is demonic. | | | I've heard that term (LEGALISM) used several times from people who love to justify their sin or the sins of others. | | | One example is the poor Roman Catholic goes through all kinds of legalistic rituals in a lost attempt to merit favor with God. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Rhodes/7895/lglobed.html
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| | Legalism |
| | More persistent threats, perhaps, come from what I call “ism’s within.” One of those is legalism. | | | Legalism, at one time or another, in one form or another, seems to blight every major faith. | | | They may begin to explore the principles underlying morality to face internal “heart” issues rather than overt behavior. |
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http://www.mainstreambaptists.org/mob3/legalism.htm
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| | Legalism: Does It Lead to True Righteousness? |
| | They reason that laws are the problem, not the solution, and that more policemen, stiffer penalties, and no frills prison life only provoke the problem. | | | Christian legalism can take an infinite number of detours. | | | But when the Bible does not speak to an issue, there is liberty, even to the extent of "not exercising liberty," if one so chooses for whatever reason. |
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http://www.ifca.org/voice/98May-Jun/Mayhue.htm
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| | Booklet > Sunset to Sunset: God's Sabbath Rest > Just What is Legalism? |
| | Jesus told the rich young man, who came to Him asking what he could do to have eternal life, "If you want to enter into life, keep the commandments" (Matthew 19:17). | | | Throughout this chapter, references are made to the legalistic approach of religious authorities who accused Jesus Christ of breaking the Sabbath. | | | If all one focuses on is obedience to law apart from the motivation of pleasing God, loving God and loving neighbor, this distorts the purpose of the law (Matthew 22:36-40; Romans 13:10) and is legalism. |
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http://www.ucg.org/booklets/SS/legalism.htm
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| | Legalism |
| | But it is not so easy to dismiss Legalism as this short, anomolous, unpleasant period of totalitarianism in Chinese history, for the Legalists established ways of doing government that would profoundly influence later governments. | | | The emperor's court did not discover these revolts until it was far too late, and the Ch'in and the policies they pursued were discredited for the rest of Chinese history. | | | The policies eventually led to the downfall of the dynasty itself after only fourteen years in power. |
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http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/CHPHIL/LEGALISM.HTM
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| | Legalism |
| | One of the most serious problems facing the church in Paul's day was the problem of legalism. | | | The Christian under law is a miserable parody of the real thing ("The Paralysis of Legalism," Bibliotheca Sacra, April-June 1963, p. | | | Nothing is left but cramped, somber, dull and listless profession. |
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http://www.abideinchrist.com/devotion/mar9.html
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| | Legalism Refuted / Lion of Judah |
| | I notice that many of the sites that try to defend legalism, and the ones who try to take a "middle ground" on the issue, are forever mentioning that legalism is okay as long as it's done to be obedient to God and not used as a means of obtaining salvation. | | | Some of these "middle-grounders" simply switch out the term "legalism" with the terms "pureness" or "holiness," as if having a nasty attitude and being harsh is acceptable under a different label; so I offer the following links with a caveat: | | | Legalism Vs. Grace, from "Church Without a Name" |
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http://www.angelfire.com/hi2/graphic1designer/false/legalism.html
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| | Chinese Cultural Studies: Han Fei: Selections from The Writings of Han Fei (c. 230 BCE) |
| | Legalism reached its apogee in the late third century B.C. in the writings of Han Feizi (Master Han Fei) and the policies of Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi. | | | Why do you think Legalism appealed to some people? | | | A third school of thought that emerged in the chaos of the late Zhou era was Legalism, which rejected both the Way of nature, as embraced by Daoists, and Confucianism's emphasis on the primacy of the moral way of antiquity. |
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http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/texts/hanfei.html
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| | Harvest House Publishers Breaking the Bondage of Legalism |
| | Once when he was considering becoming pastor of a particular church, he was so driven to perform that he put on his brave face and gave the sermon despite the fact that his wife had died unexpectedly that very morning. | | | Rich Miller is an author and speaker for Freedom in Christ Ministries and a man whose heart beats for renewal and revival in the church. | | | —Neil Anderson, Author of Breaking the Bondage of Legalism |
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http://www.harvesthousepublishers.com/book.cfm?ProductID=6911812
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| | Legalism (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. | | | Legalism in philosophy refers to one of the four chief philosophic schools during the Warring States Period of Chinese history. | | | Legalism in Christian theology is a pejorative term referring to the imposition of excessive conformity to religious rules of behavior. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legalism_(disambiguation)
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| | The Impossibility of "Legalism" |
| | The person who claims he has not sinned has not only deceived himself [I John 1:8], but he is fudging in his estimation of the requirements of God's Law. | | | They had to water down the law, ignore its weightier matters, and call their own silly traditions "the law." They boasted in their obedience to the letter of their traditions, but they ignored God's Law. | | | But in fact, by ignoring justice, mercy, and faith, he mangles beyond recognition those laws he claims to obey! |
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http://members.aol.com/Xmaspiracy/3/3_h.htm
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| | The Move Away From Legalism |
| | First of all, it is necessary to deal with the concept of legalism itself. | | | Among the beliefs which these people pushed were that Jesus had not truly been flesh and blood, or He had been only part of the time, they also believed that they themselves had access to a 'higher knowledge' which the average believer lacked and that this 'higher knowledge' was necessary for salvation. | | | As Paul is at pains to explain in Romans, a new way (in a sense) of achieving the righteousness of God, free of legalism, is revealed in Christ, giving the Jew - with their knowledge of the law - no advantage. |
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http://www.megspace.com/religion/museltof/moveaway.html
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| | Legalism and Chinese Philosophy |
| | In contrast to Taoism's intuitive anarchy, and Confucianism's benevolence, Legalism is a Classical Chinese philosophy that emphasizes the need for order above all other human concerns. | | | Hsün Tzu, much like the Italian political philosopher Machiavelli, draws a clear distinction between what pertains to heaven and what pertains to man. Later Legalist thinking influenced Chinese political theorists like Tung Chung-shu, who believed in a rigid mathematical proportion in social arrangements. | | | Even though both Confucianism and Legalism called for governmental hierarchy and adherence to tradition, the difference between the two schools is that Confucianism advocated ruling benevolently by example. |
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http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/chinese_legalism.html
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| | Legalism |
| | To them it is a burden, an inconvenience, an embarrassment, a constant reminder that the church made a colossal blunder when it jettisoned the true Sabbath day of the Decalogue and adopted the pagan rest day of Sunday. | | | But the moment we mention the need to keep the True Sabbath Day as commanded in the Decalogue, then a cry goes up: "You're being legalistic!' 'You're preaching salvation by works.' 'You're forgetting that salvation is a free gift from God.' 'Don't you know that salvation is by faith in Jesus?' | | | In view of these texts my advice to you is that you ignore those who get hung up about 'legalism.' Let them alone and bear in mind these Biblical facts. |
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http://www.avoiceinthewilderness.org/snotes/legalism.html
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| | Legalism |
| | We were wondering what you think regarding the issues of convictions and legalism?" | | | Today many folks are more afraid of being "legalistic" than they are of displeasing the Lord. | | | I can't wait to order some of your tapes for more teachings! |
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http://www.patriarchspath.org/Articles/Docs/Legalism.htm
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