Hyper legalism - man's traditions
To some the speed limit on the road is sin to break. But it is there for safety and you are fined etc if caught.
Everyone breaks the limit, but within 10% is ok. But for hyper legalists you are hell bound. And so it is with all encouragements. Doing good if known and failed, that is sin. If something is not allowed by faith, sin. OCD people become so condemned they see no love only failure.
Now these guys lie, from the beginning, will say there is only one way to see scripture, will claim the other is insulting, rude, deceived etc and refuse fellowship or praise of God, the Holy Spirit. They will literally put words into ones mouth. And what they do not see is there brother has the same theology, except on one point.
The hatred, the anger, you can feel. Whatever drives them, it is not God's love and grace. Given a gun, they would shoot. That is wolves in sheep's clothing, and when honest, they want to destroy fellow believers. That should worry them to the core, except they go to their graves thinking themselves saved while hating from the heart.
These hyper legalists are failed legalists, who went from pretending to care about righteousness, to hating polite society, not knowing one lack of salvation is the same as another.
Without love in one's heart, forgiving all, one has not even begun. I am religious, it means desiring God these folk are beyond this, because they do know or love sinners, just they are the enemy.
To some the speed limit on the road is sin to break. But it is there for safety and you are fined etc if caught.
Everyone breaks the limit, but within 10% is ok. But for hyper legalists you are hell bound. And so it is with all encouragements. Doing good if known and failed, that is sin. If something is not allowed by faith, sin. OCD people become so condemned they see no love only failure.
Now these guys lie, from the beginning, will say there is only one way to see scripture, will claim the other is insulting, rude, deceived etc and refuse fellowship or praise of God, the Holy Spirit. They will literally put words into ones mouth. And what they do not see is there brother has the same theology, except on one point.
The hatred, the anger, you can feel. Whatever drives them, it is not God's love and grace. Given a gun, they would shoot. That is wolves in sheep's clothing, and when honest, they want to destroy fellow believers. That should worry them to the core, except they go to their graves thinking themselves saved while hating from the heart.
These hyper legalists are failed legalists, who went from pretending to care about righteousness, to hating polite society, not knowing one lack of salvation is the same as another.
Without love in one's heart, forgiving all, one has not even begun. I am religious, it means desiring God these folk are beyond this, because they do know or love sinners, just they are the enemy.