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Concise Bible Dictionary
:
Strictly, those opposed to the inculcation of good
works
from a perverted view of the doctrines of
grace
; but the term is also falsely applied to those who know themselves free through the
death
of Christ from the
law
as given by
Moses
(
Rom. 7:4
4
Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. (Romans 7:4)
;
Gal. 2:19
19
For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. (Galatians 2:19)
). One has but to read carefully the
epistle to the Galatians
to see that for Gentile believers to place themselves under the law is to fall from grace; and
Paul
exhorted them to be as he was, for he was (though a
Jew
by birth) as free from the law by the death of Christ as they were as
Gentiles
. They had not injured him at all by saying he was not a strict Jew (
Gal. 4:12
12
Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all. (Galatians 4:12)
); in other words, they may have called him an antinomian, as others have been called, whose walk has been the most consistent. To go back to the law supposes that
man
has
power
to keep it. For a godly walk the
Christian
must walk in the
Spirit
, and
grace
teaches that, “denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world” (
Titus 2:12
12
Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; (Titus 2:12)
). On the other hand, there have been, and doubtless are, some who deny good works as a necessary fruit of grace in the
heart
: grace, as well as everything else, has been abused by man. See LAW.
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